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Utilise Data Analytics to Make Better Decisions

How to Extract Meaning from Data

Chaired by
Robert Grant

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Overview

The public sector holds large volumes of important data, from patient records to local government data like waste collection, procurement, planning applications and social care.

With access to such huge volumes of information, and the right skills and knowledge, you can utilise the data to make more effective decisions and improve service delivery in your organisation.

This Utilise Data Analytics to Make Better Decisions training course gives you the necessary tools and skills to identify what data to use to inform a policy recommendation, improve the performance of a project, and streamline outdated processes.

Through interactive workshops, case-studies and the use of laptops, practice data analytics on various public sector datasets using Excel. Learn how to use free and accessible data analytics tools, summarising results to make decisions supported by your data.


Trainer, Coach and Writer on Statistics

Robert is a trainer, coach and writer on statistics and working in data science, especially data visualisation and Bayesian models.

He taught statistics and research methods to postgraduate clinical research students at St George’s Medical School and Kingston University (2010-2017), and contributed to many health services and biomedical research projects in this time. His freelance clients include Harvard Medical School, The Economist, and the Cabinet Office.

He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and served on their statistical computing committee from 2012-16. He worked on clinical audits, analysing hospital quality and safety ...


Robert Grant


Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how data can best be used to aid decision making

  • Establish what data analytics is and what it means for your organisation

  • Identify what datasets to use

  • Utilise data analysis tools to extract meaning and inform decisions

  • Practise using raw data to improve the quality of decision making





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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45 Data in Public Sector Decision Making

  • How is data currently used in decision making?

  • Examine best and bad practice

  • Benchmark how data is used against other organisations

  • Examine real-life public sector datasets

  • Easy tips on how to navigate through a bank of numbers – like shares, indices, ROI calculations

  • Ascertain what your data is telling you

  • Learn the best methods and techniques to analyse data

  • Find useful insights from your data

     

10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break

11:00 - 12:00 The Language of Data Analysis

  • Different averages (Mean, mode, median, moving average)

  • Randomness

  • Stationarity

  • Linearity

  • Periodicity and Seasonality

  • Forecasting horizon

  • Accuracy and Precision

12:00 - 13:00 Data Analysis Tools

  • Correlation and causality

  • Regression and Univariate approach to time series analysis

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Workshop 1: Data to Improve a Decision – Hands on approach using Excel

  • Visualising data sets for easy identification of patterns

  • Establish relationships between multiple data sets and measure the strength of correlation

15:00 - 16:00 Workshop 2: Data to Improve a Decision – Hands on approach using Excel 

  • Build simple linear models to estimate one dataset from the other

  • Use linear regression models to predict the future values of the datasets

  • Extrapolate a variety of data trends into the future

  • Establish the reliability of your models, estimates and predictions

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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