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The goal of the Applied Data Analytics program is to help professionals at state workforce agencies develop key data science skills necessary to work with confidential data. The curriculum draws on the second edition of Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools. Participants will work in teams with state child welfare, education, and employment agency data. The specific focus of the training will be on connecting the educational experiences of youth in foster care to their employment outcomes and how the experiences of firms in hiring foster youth affect their subsequent hiring practices. The program will provide instruction on using big data tools, including SQL and R. Participants will receive training on core data concepts such as record linkage and data visualization, as well as cutting-edge training in machine learning. Participants will be grouped into small teams where they will apply the skills learned in the training course to develop and complete a project to be presented in the final meeting. This work will be guided by the Project Template starting in Module 2.