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Program on Data Science For Public Policy (DSPPP)

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    Senior Project Assistant Julius Paolo Basa and Junior Research Analyst Joyce Marie Lagac attends Day 1 of the Data Scrapping Training of DSPP Research Fellow Dr. Vladimer Kobayashi for their research activity on Analysis of Education-to-Labor-Market and Job-to-Job Transitions.
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    Day 2 of the Data Scrapping Training of DSPP Research Fellow Dr. Vladimer Kobayashi for their research activity on Analysis of Education-to-Labor-Market and Job-to-Job Transitions
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    DSPP Research Fellow Dr. Vladimer Kobayashi teaches participants text analysis using the program R
  • Source/Credit: Joyce Marie Lagac
    DSPP Research Fellow Dr. Vladimer Kobayashi teaches participants text analysis using the program R
  • Source/Credit: Joyce Marie Lagac
    DSPP Research Fellow Dr. Vladimer Kobayashi teaches participants text analysis using the program R.
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    DSPP Convenor Dr. Jalton Taguibao presides over the consultation meeting with UP Diliman’s CMC and Dr. George Solano of UP Manila.
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    The group met to discuss the Digital Public Pulse project, a media-monitoring project that traces, maps, and analyzes public discourses in the Philippine digital public sphere.

    Rationale

    Data science can help understand some of the country’s most vexing problems in the public sector, especially when information is available. Nearly all aspects of governance operate using complex systems made up of networks of interrelated, interdependent, and multicontextual factors. The most innovative tools of data science and analytics have opened up new possibilities for empirical examination of social problems best studied within the complex systems framework.

    As such, the Program on Data Science for Public Policy was established as a a series of research projects and interconstituent unit (CU) research engagement activities for various agendas of national public policy. It generally seeks to build capacity and craft research agenda toward applied data science analytics through complex systems frameworks.


    Objectives

    DSPP has three objectives. First, it aims to build the capacity of UP faculty in data science and apply this learned skill to public policy and governance. Second, it seeks to engage a community of researchers within the university and encourage the pursuit of interdisciplinary problem-oriented research using high-level quantitative analyses. Finally, it strives to convene multidisciplinary teams of social scientists, humanists, and scientists to research issues in the public sector.

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    The Team


    Ebinezer Florano, Ph.D.

    Convenor

    Professor
    National College of Public Administration and Governance
    University of the Philippines Diliman

    Vladimer B. Kobayashi, Ph.D.

    Research Fellow

    Associate Professor
    Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science University of the Philippines Mindanao

    Maria Margarita R. Lavides, Ph.D.

    Research Fellow
    Assistant Professor
    University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga and Olongapo

    Julius Paolo C. Basa, MPA

    Senior Project Assistant
    Data Science for Public Policy Program
    Center for Integrative and Development Studies
    University of the Philippines