During the global COVID-19 pandemic, leaders in politics and businesses have to make lots of difficult decisions. Many conflicting interests have to be considered to find tradeoffs that keep damages in all aspects of public and private life as small as possible.

This course will examine how those decisions can be supported with data.

• Data value chain
• Statistical Indicators
• Providing and exploiting data
• interpreting results and deriving actions

By the end of this course I'll be able to...

• Understand the functional principles, possibilities and limitations of data-informed decision-making.
• Understand the role of data, statistics, forecasts and mathematical models in the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Develop a critical, but open-minded attitude towards data in complex decision processes.

• Journalists, politicians and business leaders
• everybody who's interested to make data-informed decisions