Title: Data for Effective Policy Making

Location: US

Company: Inter-American Development Bank

About this course:
Dario, a worker in an NGO in Colombia and a participant in the course, points out that he applied the knowledge from the course to create DATASIMUS, a portal for urban mobility data that compares over 400 variables from transportation systems in the region. Discover more testimonials about the impact of this course below.
Thanks to this course, through videos and real-life cases, you will strengthen your abilities to use, understand, and interpret data. In this way, you will learn to define research problems, identify methodologies for data collection and analysis, interpret graphs, and acquire the foundations to support the decision making process in public management with verifiable data.
This course is "self-paced" so you can enroll at any time, even if the course has been open for a while.
If you choose the Audit Track , you can complete the course for free, but you won't have access to graded activities, and you won't be able to obtain a certificate upon course completion.
If you opt for the Verified Track , you can access the course unlimitedly and complete the graded assessments until the closing date by making a payment of USD 25. By doing so, if you pass the course, in addition to the verified certificate, you will receive a digital badge that allows you to transform how you share your academic and professional achievements, for example, on social media.
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By the end of the 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 addresses the problems of data collection, interpretation and analysis.

Interpret different types of visualizations and identify best practices for creating effective visualizations.

Identify the steps for creating and evaluating a data-driven policy.

This course will help you take control of data and familiarize yourself with the tools to use it in the planning, management, and evaluation of public policies.

Duration: 10 weeks

Skills:
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Management
- Planning
- Public Policies
- Research
- Statistical Reporting

Curriculum:
- Module 1: The Importance of Data in Decision Making.
- Module 2: Converting Concepts into Measurable Parameters.
- Module 3: Understanding Data Analysis.
- Module 4: Displaying the Results.

- Module 5: Closing the Loop: from Data to Planning.