Fall Executive Certificate in Data Literacy & Evidence Building
The Executive Certificate in Data Literacy and Evidence Building at the University of Maryland’s Social Data Science Center in conjunction with the Coleridge Initiative and the Kentucky Center for Statistics is a not-for-credit certificate program that trains participants in valuable data literacy skills and how to apply best practices when working with data. Participants will learn how to scope a policy problem, understand the data generation process, how to manage, combine, and structure data, how to create, measure and analyze the effect of different data decisions on key measures such as non-completion and job quality measures. Participants will also learn the basics of machine learning and visualization as well as inference, bias, privacy, and ethics issues. The specific use case is focused on the integration of education and workforce data using the Multi-State Education Dashboard as a concrete example. The focus will be on understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the labor market in a way that can be transferred to a wide range of policy contexts. Each step of the way participants will learn how generative AI can fit into the workflow.
