Introduction
How governments make decisions
Although many readers chose this book for an introduction to R, geospatial data science, and machine learning, my goal was to write a book about public-sector decision-making.
The typical methods-driven public policy book is about generating evidence that legislators can use to set budgets. This ‘budgetary' decision-making receives the bulk of attention from academics, journalists, and policymakers - and for good reason. However, simply signing a promising bill into a law, does not guarantee success.
Once millions of dollars are budgeted for a program, a government agency decides how to allocate that money, to whom, how often, and for how long. Despite receiving far ...
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