Data for Effective Policy Making
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In this age of information, data is available everywhere and grows at an exponential rate. How can we make sense of all this data? How do we take advantage of data when making decisions? How do we use data to help us guide the management and planning of our policies?
Whether you are a citizen or a policymaker, learning the answers to these questions can benefit you greatly.
In this course, you will strengthen your ability to use, understand, and interpret data. Using the "Numbers for Development" and "Caribbean Data Portal" platforms developed by the IDB - which presents data and socioeconomic indicators from the Latin American and Caribbean region - you will be able to understand how to improve the decision-making process in public management.
At the end of the course, you will have gained the tools to navigate data, perform and interpret visualizations, and understand the different types of data analysis according to the policy to be implemented.
Don't worry, it's not a statistics course! However, you will acquire the knowledge necessary to interpret graphs, statistical reports, and understand their language. And, most importantly, you will learn the foundations to be able to base your decisions on verifiable data, beyond intuition.
The course is based on real-life examples so that you can understand the different concepts and methodologies in a simple, practical, and enjoyable way. Using various useful activities, you will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and practice with data and graphs. Also, we will show you real IDB cases to promote analysis and present the realities to which experts from the region and the Caribbean are exposed. You will also face some creative challenges that will allow you to measure your abilities on a higher level of difficulty.
The course has readings and videos that enable you to generate a better understanding of course topics and participate in the discussion forums with a strong basis; open up areas for discussion with your colleagues around the issues and challenges raised during the course.
84% of students have stated that the course content has helped them improve their ability to formulate, implement, and/or evaluate public policies.
This course is "self-paced" so you can enroll at any time, even if the course has been open for a while. You can take it at the time that is most suitable for you inside the enrolment period of the course.
If you opt for the Audit track, you could complete the course free and have 10 weeks to take the course from the day you subscribed.
If you opt for the Verified track , you can access the course in an unlimited way and complete the qualified evaluations until the closing date, (March 06th, 2023), after making a payment of $25 . If you pass, in addition to the verified certificate, you will obtain a digital badge *that allows you to change the way you share your academic and professional achievements, for example, on social media.
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What you'll learn
- 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.
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Length | 10 weeks |
Effort | 10 weeks, 3–4 hours per week |
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Cost | $25 |
From | Inter-American Development Bank, IDBx via edX |
Instructors | Norma Palomino, Ivette Fis de Melo |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Business Mathematics |
Tags | Economics & Finance Math |
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Rating | 5.0★ based on 1 ratings |
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Length | 10 weeks |
Effort | 10 weeks, 3–4 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $25 |
From | Inter-American Development Bank, IDBx via edX |
Instructors | Norma Palomino, Ivette Fis de Melo |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business Mathematics |
Tags | Economics & Finance Math |
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