Psephologist Course
This course provides hands-on training in election forecasting, from data analysis to ethical communication of results.

4 to 360 hours of flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What Will I Learn?
The Psephologist Course equips you with practical tools to understand and predict elections confidently. You will learn to gather and clean official data, assess polls, correct for bias, and develop turnout and vote-share models. Through practical exercises with electoral systems, seat allocation, scenarios, and uncertainty, you will produce clear, ethical forecasts and present results to any audience.
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Develop Skills
- Build election forecasts: convert polls and historical data into clear, practical projections.
- Analyse 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 quickly.
- Communicate results ethically: report uncertainty, scenarios, and methods clearly.
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