CDI Learning Resources

Learn openly. Practise independently. Grow with guidance.

Explore free CDI guides and systems across six connected domains, strengthen your skills through structured DIY Practicals, and access mentorship when feedback, direction, or accountability would help you progress.

A flexible path from learning to application

Begin with the level of support that fits your current goals, experience, and preferred way of learning.

01

Learn openly

Build knowledge with free CDI guides, systems, examples, and reference materials.

02

Practise independently

Apply what you learn through focused DIY Practicals with structured tasks and clear outputs.

03

Grow with guidance

Use mentorship when feedback, direction, interpretation, or accountability would help you move forward.

Domain 01

Data Science

Build practical foundations for working with data—from programming, databases, cleaning, exploration, and visualization to machine learning, model evaluation, and deployment.

Open guides and systems

Free to access

Data Science Foundations

Open

Develop a structured foundation in Python, data handling, analysis, visualization, and reproducible workflows.

Open guide

Visualization with Python

Open

Create clear and effective visualizations with Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotnine, and Plotly.

Open guide

Databases & SQL

Open

Learn how to organize, query, filter, join, summarize, and work responsibly with structured data.

Open guide

Machine Learning with Python

Open

Build a practical foundation in supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation, interpretation, and reproducible machine-learning workflows.

Open guide

Model Deployment

Open

Learn how to package, deploy, test, monitor, and maintain machine-learning models as reliable applications and production-ready services.

Open guide

DIY Practicals

Hands-on application
Domain 02

Artificial Intelligence

Understand and use artificial intelligence thoughtfully for learning, reasoning, creativity, analysis, decision-making, and practical problem-solving across different fields.

Open resources

In development

Artificial Intelligence Resources

Coming soon

Future resources will explore AI literacy, generative AI, prompt design, human–AI collaboration, critical evaluation, and the responsible use of AI-assisted systems.

The emphasis will be on using AI to strengthen human capability while preserving judgment, transparency, accountability, and meaningful human oversight.

DIY Practicals

Hands-on application
Domain 03

Omics & Bioinformatics

Explore practical systems for discovering, acquiring, analyzing, and interpreting genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, microbiome, and other biological data.

Open guides and systems

Free to access

Data Acquisition System

Open

Discover and acquire public sequencing datasets from NCBI through structured, reproducible, and documented workflows.

Use tools such as EDirect and SRA Toolkit to search metadata, retrieve sequencing records, and prepare data for downstream omics analysis.

Open system

RNA-Seq Analysis

Open

Learn how to explore count data, assess sample relationships, identify differential expression, and interpret RNA-Seq results.

Open guide

GWAS Analysis

Open

Explore genome-wide association study concepts, data structures, quality considerations, analysis, and interpretation.

Open guide

Single-Cell Analysis

Open

Build a practical understanding of single-cell data, quality assessment, dimensionality reduction, clustering, annotation, and interpretation.

Open guide

Microbiome Analysis

Open

Learn how to organize, explore, compare, visualize, and interpret microbiome data through structured workflows.

Open system

Proteomics Analysis

Open

Explore proteomics data preparation, quality assessment, statistical analysis, visualization, and biological interpretation.

Open system

DIY Practicals

Hands-on application
Domain 04

Clinical & Medical Data

Develop practical understanding of clinical research data, medical evidence, responsible analysis, interpretation, reporting, and decision-making.

Open guide

Free to access

Clinical & Medical Data

Open

Explore clinical and medical data concepts, study designs, data quality, statistical reasoning, responsible interpretation, and clear communication of findings.

Open guide

DIY Practicals

Hands-on application
Domain 05

Career Development

Strengthen how you identify your skills, document evidence, present your experience, build professional profiles, and communicate your value with confidence.

Open resources

Practical guidance

Career Development Resources

Growing

Explore guidance for recognizing transferable skills, documenting achievements, presenting career evidence, and making thoughtful professional-development decisions.

CDI career resources connect learning and technical work with portfolios, professional profiles, mentorship, and career progression.

DIY Practicals

Available now
Domain 06

Research & Innovation

Develop rigorous, reproducible, and interdisciplinary approaches for turning research questions, complex data, and emerging ideas into credible knowledge and practical innovation.

Open guides and systems

Free to access

Dataset Discovery

Open

Find suitable public datasets and evaluate their relevance, structure, quality, documentation, accessibility, and limitations before beginning an analysis or research project.

This cross-domain system supports transparent dataset selection for research, data science, omics, clinical, and interdisciplinary projects.

Open system

Research & Innovation Resources

Growing

Explore guidance for developing research questions, designing reproducible workflows, evaluating evidence, documenting decisions, and communicating findings clearly.

Future resources will connect methods, data, technology, and domain knowledge to support transparent inquiry, interdisciplinary collaboration, and responsible innovation.

DIY Practicals

In development

Choose the support that fits your next step

Use the open resources to build knowledge, explore CDI Practicals when you are ready to apply it, or connect through mentorship when personalized guidance would help you progress.