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Data for Effective Policy Making
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize the importance of the relationship between data analysis and decision-making in public management.
- Define the research problem, the starting hypothesis, the analysis variables and some methods to verify the hypotheses.
- Identify the methodology that best responds to the problem posed to collect, interpret and analyze the data.
- Interpret and develop different types of visualizations, using specific examples from the Numbers portal for the Development of a data set.
- Use data analysis to propose solutions to public policy problems, explain the evaluation of a policy, and to carry out policy planning.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Norma Palomino
Former Chief of the Information Services Unit (ISU); Knowledge, Innovation and Communications Sector (KIC)
Inter-American Development Bank
Ivette Fis de Melo
Librarian & Knowledge Management Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank
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