PASIG CITY, Mar. 5 -- Project Smarter Philippines through Data Analytics R&D, Training and Adoption (SPARTA) continues to fulfill its mission of furthering the data science and analytics (DSA) ecosystem in the country by releasing more courses in its second year of implementation. Based on the recent data, the project has now 18 courses on the Coursebank website which learners can access for free through a DOST scholarship. The eighteen available SPARTA courses are comprised of 17 DSA courses and one FOI course. The FOI 101 or Freedom of Information: An Introduction was developed by the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), through the Freedom of Information Project Management Office (FOI-PMO), and was made possible by the Memorandum of Understanding between PCOO and the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP).