Psephologist Course
The Psephologist Course equips you with skills to master election analysis. You will learn to interpret polls accurately, map constituencies effectively, model voter turnout precisely, and report forecasts in an ethical manner. This empowers your humanities background to make a significant impact in politics, media, and public discourse, enabling confident predictions and informed discussions.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
In the Psephologist Course, gain practical tools to analyse and predict elections confidently. Master collecting and cleaning official data, evaluating polls, adjusting for biases, and developing models for turnout and vote shares. Engage hands-on with electoral systems, seat allocation methods, scenario planning, and uncertainty measures to produce ethical forecasts and communicate findings effectively to diverse audiences.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Build election forecasts by converting polls and historical data into practical projections.
- Analyze voting patterns by segmenting electorates and tracking swings across various groups.
- Evaluate polls by detecting bias, adjusting weights, and quantifying sampling uncertainty.
- Simulate seat allocation using PR formulas to quickly map votes into seats.
- Communicate results ethically by clearly reporting uncertainty, scenarios, and methods.
Suggested summary
Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.What our students say
FAQs
Who is Elevify? How does it work?
Do the courses have certificates?
Are the courses free?
What is the course workload?
What are the courses like?
How do the courses work?
What is the duration of the courses?
What is the cost or price of the courses?
What is an EAD or online course and how does it work?
PDF Course