The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio is hosting the Winter, 2020 Coleridge Initiative Applied Data Analytics training program, sponsored by the Gates Foundation. Participants will work in teams to define and complete a project related to Transitions in Education and Workforce. The program will provide up-to-date perspective on the use of administrative data for policy analysis, and instruction on how to manage and analyze micro data according to best practices.  Instructors will facilitate hands-on coding of micro data in SQL and Python for the following tasks:  data management, record linkage, data visualization, and machine learning.

Who: State and local agency professionals with a masters’ degree or above with some emphasis in a quantitative field (e.g. statistics, economics or computer science) or at least two years working in a hands-on, data-oriented field.)


When: February 1, 2020 through May 15, 2020

In-person training
Module 1, March 2-4, 2020
Module 2, April 20-22, 2020

Where: The Ohio State University
John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Cost: $6,000 per individual participant. Teams of 2-4 participants receive a 20% discount. Teams of 5 or more receive a 20% discount for the 2nd-4th seats and a 40% discount for the 5th seat and each seat beyond that. A limited number scholarships may be available for agency staff from states newly partnering with the Coleridge Initiative.