Day One focused on training and upskilling (Knowing), consisting of various workshops at the Science Block at Steve Biko Campus for DUT staff and students regarding first year students and the usage of the DUT Beginning University Survey of Student Engagement (BUSSE), a second workshop on statistical data analysis of class marks using Excel and SPSS, a third workshop on analysing data and creating reports using Microsoft Power BI Desktop and an Excel workshop to help attendees to polish their data transformation skills.
The aim of the workshops was to allow participants to understand and to be able to perform basic data analysis using sort, filter, pivot tables and dashboards.