Politics and Ethics of Data Analytics in the Public Sector

Michigan examines the decisions around analysis rather than introducing another coding library. Political context and professional ethics lead into an applied policy case. Its approximately fourteen-hour outline is useful when an analyst must explain the consequences and limitations of using public data.

What you will learn

• Identify ethical questions in public-sector data use.
• Compare professional frameworks for analytical decisions.
• Apply an ethical analysis to a policy case study.

Who this suits

Intermediate learners interested in public administration or the responsibilities of an analyst.

Before you enroll

The provider does not specify prerequisites. This is a context and judgment course; use a separate programming course for hands-on R or Python foundations.

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Put it into practice

Write a short decision memo for a fictional public-data project. Identify affected groups, missing information and a plausible misuse of the proposed analysis.

Source and review

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