14 practical topics, three days in Nairobi, and a dataset of your own taken from the mess it arrives in through to a test, a model and a sentence somebody can act on.
Practical learning experiences delivered across Africa. A few moments from previous Vantage Africa cohorts:
Plenty of people can run a test. Far fewer can say which test the question needed, whether its assumptions held, and what the result means for the decision sitting in front of them.
Match the method to the question and the measurement level, rather than running everything and keeping whatever came back significant.
A short video on why the output is the easy half of an analysis.
Video holder · Add approved clip hereTurn output into a sentence a manager can act on, with the uncertainty still visible in it rather than rounded away.
A table nobody reads cost the same to produce as one that changed something. This programme is built around the step most training skips: getting from the output to the choice somebody has to make on Monday morning.
The pathway is designed around what you will be able to do. You begin guided virtual learning as soon as you register, then build on it during three practical days in Nairobi, 25–27 March 2027.
Planning the analysis, cleaning the data, and your first tests.
Three focused days on modelling, the tools, dashboards and reporting, in Nairobi.
Proposed allocation: topics 1–6 are guided online and cover planning, cleaning and the first tests; topics 7–14 are worked through during the three physical days, where the modelling, the tools and the reporting are done with a facilitator beside you.
Explore each topic below. The real test is whether the finding survives somebody asking how you got it.
An analysis is only as good as the questions it survives. What gets checked here is whether the test matched the question, whether its assumptions were tested rather than assumed, and whether your reading of the result stays inside what the data can carry.
Join the 14-topic pathway →A real dataset from your work, as messy as it actually arrived.
Recoding, missing values and merges, documented well enough to repeat.
The question, the measurement level and the assumptions — before you run anything.
Coefficients, fit and residuals, and what the output does not tell you.
One page a manager could act on, with the uncertainty still in it.
The reference material comes with the programme. The thing worth carrying home is your own dataset taken end to end — cleaned, tested, modelled and written up, with every choice along the way questioned by facilitators and peers before anybody acts on it.
StudyGenius guides you through progressive skill-building, practice, feedback and applied challenges. Try a lesson free.
Explore StudyGenius ↗Video placeholder — insert an approved clip of Dr. Benson teaching participants to check a test's assumptions.
You are not simply buying training days. You are investing in analytical judgement, a finding your organisation can act on, and a community of peers.
18,000+ professionals trained across 30+ countries, including government, NGO and development-sector teams.
Guided by Dr. Benson Kiarie and experienced faculty; every exercise runs on data from real organisations.
Observable work, feedback and practical checks — and an analysis you could put into a report next week.
A count tells you what happened. The work is in what it means: which way the trend is moving, who it is moving for, what is driving it, and what the organisation should do about it before the next reporting cycle closes. That is the distance this programme is built to cover.
See the 14 topics →Is it getting better or worse. For whom. What is driving it. What would change it. How sure we are. Those five questions sit behind every request for a report, however the request is worded.
An analysis is finished when somebody can act on it.
The programme is built around practical work rather than attendance. You bring your own dataset, clean it, choose and justify the tests, check their assumptions and write the finding for somebody who is not an analyst.
Yes. The pathway covers all 14 topics, 6 guided online and 8 in the room, subject to the programme’s formal assessment decisions.
The first 6 are introduced through guided online work before the workshop and cover the foundations. The remaining 8 form the focus of the three physical days in Nairobi, where the modelling, the data management and the reporting are done with a facilitator beside you.
Yes. Under the standard-fee pathway, the $80 initial payment counts toward $580 and leaves $500 payable. The $480 offer is for early full payment, not the instalment plan.
The programme is planned for Nairobi, Kenya on 25–27 March 2027. The exact venue will be confirmed by the Vantage Africa team before a final booking commitment.
Demonstrations run across Excel, SPSS and Power BI, so you see the same analysis in the tool your organisation actually has. The reasoning is the same in all of them; the clicking is not.
No. The programme starts from measurement levels and distributions. It suits M&E, programme and research staff who have data and need to do more with it than count it.
Yes. Contact Vantage Africa for an invitation letter, invoice or a tailored in-house proposal.
Let us tailor data analysis, statistical training or a bespoke evidence capacity pathway to your organisation, sector and challenges.
Contact Dr. Benson · +254 725 303 645 · bkiarie@vantageafricaleaders.comBecome the person whose analysis survives the first hard question about it.