Psephologist Course
This course teaches practical psephology skills for election forecasting, including data analysis, poll evaluation, modeling, and ethical communication.

from 4 to 360h 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'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 history 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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