Descriptive statistics courses can help you learn how to summarize data sets, calculate measures of central tendency, and assess variability. You can build skills in interpreting frequency distributions, creating visual data representations, and performing hypothesis testing. Many courses introduce tools like Excel, R, or Python for data analysis, allowing you to apply these skills in practical scenarios, such as analyzing survey results or evaluating experimental data.
University of London
Skills you'll gain: Financial Statements, Business Planning, Sampling (Statistics), Leadership and Management, Descriptive Statistics, Team Management, Team Building, Organizational Structure, Data Presentation, Professional Networking, Communication, Organizational Change, Business Mathematics, Business Strategy, Professionalism, Resource Allocation, Competitive Analysis, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Modeling, International Finance
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Spreadsheet Software, Marketing Analytics, Pivot Tables And Charts, Trend Analysis, Marketing Budgets, Marketing Strategies, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Business Reporting, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Performance Reporting, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Marketing, Descriptive Analytics, Performance marketing, Performance Metric, Business Metrics, Performance Measurement
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Johns Hopkins University
Skills you'll gain: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurology, Medical Imaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Anatomy, Image Analysis, Data Analysis, X-Ray Computed Tomography, Data Manipulation, Radiology, Analytical Skills, Experimentation, Statistical Analysis, Biomedical Technology, Advanced Analytics, Network Analysis, R Programming, Data Processing, Research Design, Statistics
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Behavioral Economics, Decision Making, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Behaviour, Financial Analysis, Economics, Psychology, Probability & Statistics, Risk Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Dashboard, Proposal Development, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Data Presentation, Tableau Software, Data Visualization, Data Mapping, Data Visualization Software, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Literacy, Exploratory Data Analysis, Graphing, Histogram, Scatter Plots, Tree Maps, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Statistical Visualization, Performance Analysis, Storyboarding
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months
University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: Research Methodologies, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Critical Thinking, Persistence, Program Evaluation, Case Studies, Tenacity, Psychological Evaluations, Surveys, Data Collection, Reliability, Descriptive Statistics, Interviewing Skills
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: People Analytics, Descriptive Analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Marketing Analytics, Financial Statement Analysis, Business Analytics, Customer Analysis, Data Collection, Human Capital, Predictive Modeling, Human Resource Strategy, Operations Research, Financial Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Analytics, Operational Efficiency, Financial Data, Operational Analysis, Peer Review, Human Resources
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Arizona State University
Skills you'll gain: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Bayesian Network, Statistical Methods, Statistical Analysis, Data Analysis, R Programming, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Statistical Inference, Markov Model, Simulations, Probability Distribution
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Jupyter, IBM Cloud, Data Visualization Software, R (Software), Computer Programming Tools, Development Environment, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Science, Integrated Development Environments, Data Analysis, GitHub, Python Programming, Scala Programming
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Data Cleansing, Statistical Inference, Data Preprocessing, Data Access, Statistical Methods, Data Quality, Probability & Statistics, Data Analysis, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Exploratory Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Transformation, Jupyter, Pandas (Python Package), Machine Learning, Box Plots, Scatter Plots, SQL
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Washington
Skills you'll gain: Applied Machine Learning, Classification Algorithms, Model Evaluation, Regression Analysis, AI Personalization, Machine Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Predictive Modeling, Supervised Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Logistic Regression, Statistical Modeling, Deep Learning, Feature Engineering, Data Mining, Decision Tree Learning, Data Preprocessing, Statistical Machine Learning, Text Mining, Machine Learning Algorithms
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Dimensionality Reduction, Unsupervised Learning, Supervised Learning, Feature Engineering, Classification Algorithms, Data Cleansing, Statistical Inference, Data Preprocessing, Data Access, Applied Machine Learning, Statistical Methods, Model Evaluation, Data Quality, Probability & Statistics, Data Analysis, Machine Learning Algorithms, Regression Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Machine Learning
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months