Psephologist Course
This course equips you with essential skills in election forecasting, poll analysis, and ethical communication of electoral predictions through hands-on data modeling and simulation.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Psephologist Course provides practical tools to understand and predict elections confidently. You will learn to gather and clean official data, assess polls, correct for bias, and develop models for turnout and vote shares. Through practical exercises with electoral systems, seat distribution, scenarios, and uncertainty, you will produce clear, ethical predictions and share results with any audience.
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Develop skills
- Build election forecasts: turn polls and history into clear, practical projections.
- Analyze voting patterns: segment electorates and track swings across groups.
- Evaluate polls: detect bias, adjust weights, and quantify sampling uncertainty.
- Simulate seat allocation: apply PR formulas and map votes into seats fast.
- Communicate results ethically: report uncertainty, scenarios, and methods clearly.
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