Training Signup Due Date: 03/15/26

Name of Agency or Organization: The Evaluators' Institute

Opportunity Description

There is a growing demand from public and private policymakers and funders to apply big data science and machine learning for evaluation. In this introductory course, participants will learn the fundamentals of integrating the theory, methods, and machine learning algorithms of big data science into their evaluation approach. This will include an introduction to Bayesian theory, machine learning algorithms, predictive and prescriptive analytics, causal modeling, and addressing selection and algorithmic bias. The course will guide participants through an interactive step-by-step process of building evaluation models using primary and secondary datasets. This course will introduce machine learning algorithms for structured (quantitative, ordinal, and categorical) and unstructured (qualitative text) data modeling, including how to train machine learning algorithms to support conducting a mixed methods evaluation.

Register by March 15, 2026

Cost

The price of this course is $1700

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