Everyone has to be Citizen Data Scientist in the digital age

In the digital age, data literacy has become the basic job skill of every career. Acquiring data skills and data quotient (DQ) and becoming Citizen Data Scientist is the best way to stay competitive in the digital era.

Empower yourself with OpenCertHub
With the vision to democratize data literacy with open-source technology to everyone, OpenCertHub is an award-winning international examination and certification organization delivering open-source skill qualification (CDPOS™) and has won several industry awards in Greater China’s region.

Acquiring international official certification on open-source software skill

Selected leading open-source software skills essential for digital transformation

Award-winning certification recognized by industry

Suitable for non-tech talent to start 1st step in data literacy

Choice of English or Chinese bilingual examination platform

Adoption of latest big data and blockchain technology

Discover Our CDPOS™ "1+X" Qualification

CDPOS™ (Certified Data Professional in Open-source Software) is an international Skills Certification designed specifically for open-source software. Anyone can take training courses to learn the basic knowledge of open-source tools required by digital transformation enterprises.
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Expert Stories

EXPERT STORY
Mr. Herbert Chia
Venture Partner of Sequoia Capital China, Former Vice President and Head of Data Committee of Alibaba Group
"The significance of stream computing will increase as the Internet of Things (IoT) comes of age. Technology pertaining to big data will continue to evolve and advance. To survive and thrive, companies will need to move in step with the time."
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Ms. Anna Lin, JP, FCILT
Chief Executive of GS1 Hong Kong
"Data is the foundation for business success. Accurate, shareable, searchable and linkable information is critical to redefine the customer experience, while data analysis and intelligence that generate insights can help retailers and brands stand apart."
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Dr. Kai Chen, PhD (Shanghai Jiao Tong)
Assistant Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Centre
Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

"In the era of artificial intelligence, big data is of great value to the application of artificial intelligence to enterprise results. Big data can be used as training samples and test samples of artificial intelligence deep learning algorithms and machine learning algorithms, making artificial intelligence algorithms more and more accurate; Enterprise big data can also be converted into a knowledge graph to help enterprises make breakthroughs in cognitive intelligent applications."
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Weidong Zhao
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science of Fudan University, China
"Data analysis is a necessity for business competition. Inadvertently, it has gradually infiltrated thousands of industries. As the protagonist of the digital transformation of enterprises in the future, data capabilities will relentlessly separate the old and new business formats, and empower the pioneers to upgrade."
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Dr. Victor Ng, PhD ( Sun Yat-sen), MBA (Oxford)
Advisor, e-Learning Development Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong|Head of Academy, TADEMY
"Change becomes the new normal in the evolving and dynamic digital era. Navigating change and transformation involves complex problem solving in digital contexts. Data literacy, the ability to read, write, analyze and communicate data in context, is an essential competency for deriving insights from data, which is central to problem solving."
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Mr. Michael Yung
Head of Digital Product and Technology, Asia Miles, MBA, BCS, CISA, CISM, CCI
“Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby said. However, data in itself is merely facts and figures. On the other hand, data analysis organises, interprets, structures and turn the data into actions with the aim of enhancing productivity and business gain. Every company shall master that skill."
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Teddy Liu
General Manager - Corporate and Talent Development, New World Development Co Ltd
"Data is KING and Tech is Queen.  The more relevant data we have, the stronger our empire can be, and the better we can serve our citizen.  Tech must be always be lean, young, attractive and up-to-date to make best use of Data for creating value, attracting more resources to make our business enterprises stronger and stronger."
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Ir. Susanna S C SHEN
Head of Corporate IT, The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Ltd. Chairperson of CIO Board, HKCS
"It is a data-driven world. Data power people from all walks of life. With appropriate tools, big data unleash intelligence that helps an organization to excel to the next level."
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Personal Stories

PERSONAL STORY
Poon Ho Shing
Technology Adoption Manager of a Local Public Utility
"OpenCertHub provides official recognition to my professional ability on data proficiency in Open-Source software with CDPOS™ certificate. I passed CDPOS™ M01 and M02 exam for “Data Citizen” role-based certification, which helps us adopting Big Data technology with best practice in our business."
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PERSONAL STORY
Lamson Chan
Deputy Sales Director of a Global Hardware Vendor
"I appreciate offering of practical assignments and the course is definitely helpful in improviing my understanding on how to use Apache Superset to visualize my project data."
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PERSONAL STORY
Dick Tang
Senior Regional Business Manager of a Global Software Vendor
"CDPOS™ curriculum is suitable for the layman level to learn big data skill and knowledge especially in big data analytics. The big data analytics boots my business efficiency, it is easy to gain actionable insights."
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Henry Yeung
Product Marketing Director, CITIC Telecom International CPC
"Data skills are now essential for almost every role in every organization. The CDPOS™ course is an introductory course appropriate for both tech and non tech people to equip their data literacy. With lots of cases sharing and hands-on practices for an open source tool (Superset), this gives me insights for how to make use of data in my work."
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Jonathan Choy
Data Application Development Division, Information Technology Department, Project Manager of a China Banking
"The topics and the content of the course are well organised, the understanding between big data open-source technology are critical if you want to develop your career with data technology. The CDPOS™ role-based certification is a good design to qualify the level of data literacy, it can help me to enrich my profile in the big data area."
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PatrickTsoi
CEO, Sunon Technology HK Limited
"Thanks to OpenCertHub, we open up our training services together in China, HongKong and Malaysia! We will keep contributing to the CDPOS certification by providing the best training services to the candidates!"
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PERSONAL STORY
Alan Ong
Director, Siang Pharmacy
"I come across this course to actually showcase to me that what are the benefits for analytics. Superset give me something to take away from this course, to think and go back to my stakeholders, basically my shareholders, tell them something that they don’t know."
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PERSONAL STORY
Angeline Teh
Founder and CEO, Future Proof Minds Consulting
"The games were fun and interactive. Its experiential learning which helps us to absorb what we learn faster and more effective. I found that the data citizen course is very essential in terms of growing any business. I would strongly encourage any companies or organisations out there to learn this course and to use it for their business growth."
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Noreen
Head of CPD, MICPA
"I would recommend this course to others because not only that you can use it in your work, I think in your life, your own personal life as well you can also apply it. Because it’s very easy."
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Hazri
Director, Prima Khas Sdn Bhd
"It was a good experience because sometimes in class we just have to walk around and learn more about analytics. So, I think its very useful. So far, I find it interesting. I would definitely recommend this course, data citizen certification to my colleagues and even to some of my friends. I think it will be good for them also."
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