Data Science for Public Policy
Jeffrey C Chen author Edward A Rubin author Gary J Cornwall author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:1st Sep '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£44.99(9783030713546)
This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques and approaches emphasize data-driven practices, beginning with the basic programming paradigms that occupy the majority of an analyst’s time and advancing to the practical applications of statistical learning and machine learning. The text considers two divergent, competing perspectives to support its applications, incorporating techniques from both causal inference and prediction. Additionally, the book includes open-sourced data as well as live code, written in R and presented in notebook form, which readers can use and modify to practice working with data.
ISBN: 9783030713515
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363 pages
1st ed. 2021