Public Policy, Ist Edition by Pearson

CHAPTER 14

Data Science and Public Policy

This chapter presents the role of data science in public policy. Section 1 introduces the concept of data science and its sub-fields like Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. The data science life cycle is explained in section 2. Data science also influences the public policy cycle; we presented this in section three. Section four offers the influence of data science on governance. Data science is a powerful tool for building an inclusive society; we present this in section five. Data science is used to improve public utility services, which is explained in section 6. We also show the role of data science as a planning tool in section 7, followed by a section on public policy ...