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Analytic Methods for Public Policy
Course #: PUBPOL 620
Description:
This course is an introduction to data analytics, with a focus on data acquisition, management, and analysis in public-serving organizations. Successful public policy professionals should be able to deploy data analytics and data science tools and methods to make meaning from data, to identify, propose and evaluate relationships to build explanations about phenomena and organizations associated with the public interest. This course is designed to provide students the skills for assessing the need for data in public-serving organizations, for extracting knowledge and insight from data, and effectively communicating results for policy action and public engagement.
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