Data for complex decisions
Sensemaking, narrative evidence, targets and ethics.
A half day on data for complex decisions: power and voice in data, collective sensemaking, narrative evidence, evaluation in complexity, dashboards, public data, data ethics and four landmark cases.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Understanding Data and Data Analysis
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders, analysts, evaluators, commissioners and board members in councils, the NHS, housing, police, fire and charities in Wales and England.
Overview
This half-day Explore turns to data for complex public service decisions. It opens with power, voice and fairness through Data Feminism and Camden Council's Data Charter, and collective methods such as the data walk, SenseMaker and the Delphi method. It then weighs narrative evidence with Lincoln and Guba and Most Significant Change, and sets out evaluation in complexity, from realist evaluation to contribution analysis. It covers dashboards and Results-Based Accountability, public data from the ONS to StatsWales, and the Data and AI Ethics Framework, closing with the Challenger, Horizon, Mid Staffordshire and Covid-19 cases.
Aims
This half-day Explore aims to develop leaders who ask whose data and whose meaning, read evidence together with the people affected and make honest claims about impact. It builds the confidence to test dashboards, trust public figures as far as their method earns and keep people accountable for data-informed decisions.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Involve the people affected in collecting and reading the data that describes them.
- Combine stories and numbers to make credible claims about impact.
- Test dashboards, public statistics and automated systems for fairness and purpose.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Use five questions about power, and the seven principles of Data Feminism, to examine who collects, who is counted and who decides what data means.
- Plan a sensemaking session using the six-step cycle, from preparing the data and reading independently to surfacing differences and deciding the next probe.
- Assess a qualitative report using Lincoln and Guba's criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability, with reflexivity running through them.
- Distinguish attribution from contribution claims, and build a credible contribution story using Mayne's six steps.
- Use five board questions to test any dashboard for purpose, signal and noise, gaps, gaming and action.
- Apply the checks of source, method and border, together with careful benchmarking, before comparing figures across Wales and England.
- Distinguish a data-driven from a data-informed stance, and judge which keeps people accountable for decisions in your setting.
- Treat ratios and estimates as questions rather than answers, presenting their method, range and age honestly.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Making sense togetherWhose data, and collective sensemaking methodsBitesize2 modules
- 02Stories as evidenceQualitative evidence and evaluation in complexityBitesize2 modules
- 03Targets and public dataMeasures, dashboards and public data in Wales and the UKBitesize2 modules
- 04Fair dataData ethics and algorithmic fairness, with case studiesBitesize2 modules
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Part of the Understanding Data and Data Analysis topic, also sold whole as Beyond the dashboard.
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When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading with data and digital