Psephologist Course
This course provides hands-on training in election analysis, enabling you to create reliable forecasts, understand voter behavior, and communicate predictions effectively while adhering to ethical standards.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Psephologist Course equips you with practical tools to analyse and predict elections confidently. You will learn to gather and prepare official data, assess polls, correct for bias, and develop models for turnout and vote shares. Through practical engagement with electoral systems, seat distribution, scenarios, and uncertainty, you will produce transparent, ethical predictions and present findings to diverse audiences.
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Develop skills
- Build election forecasts: transform polls and historical data into straightforward, usable projections.
- Analyse voting patterns: divide electorates into segments and monitor shifts across various groups.
- Evaluate polls: identify bias, adjust weighting, and measure sampling uncertainty.
- Simulate seat allocation: use proportional representation methods and convert votes to seats efficiently.
- Communicate results ethically: disclose uncertainty, scenarios, and approaches transparently.
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