Psephologist Course
This course equips learners with essential skills in election forecasting, poll analysis, and ethical communication of electoral predictions.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Psephologist Course provides practical tools to understand and predict elections with confidence. You'll learn to gather and tidy official data, assess polls, correct for bias, and develop turnout and vote-share models. Through practical exercises with electoral systems, seat distribution, scenarios, and uncertainty, you'll produce clear, ethical forecasts and share results with any audience.
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Develop skills
- Build election forecasts: convert polls and historical data into clear, practical projections.
- Analyse voting patterns: divide electorates and monitor swings across groups.
- Evaluate polls: spot bias, adjust weights, and measure sampling uncertainty.
- Simulate seat allocation: use PR formulas and convert votes to seats quickly.
- Communicate results ethically: present uncertainty, scenarios, and methods clearly.
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