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.

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Resource Allocation, Customer Analysis, Marketing Channel, Marketing Effectiveness, Data Modeling, Sales Strategy, Web Analytics, Big Data, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategies, Cross-Channel Marketing, Marketing Analytics, Data Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Data Visualization Software, Data Wrangling, Data Manipulation, Google Cloud Platform, Data Import/Export, Data Transformation, Data Cleansing, Data Analysis, Sampling (Statistics), Course Development
Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Marketing Analytics, Data Visualization, Sales Strategy, Marketing Strategies, Digital Media Strategy, Data Visualization Software, Customer Engagement, Analytics, Consumer Behaviour, Market Analysis, Regression Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Pandas (Python Package), Decision Tree Learning, Decision Making, Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Sales Strategy, Sales Process, Anthropic Claude, Sales, Sales Development, Sales Pipelines, Sales Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Inside Sales, AI Personalization, Customer Analysis, Customer Insights, Customer experience improvement, Market Analysis, Trend Analysis, Forecasting, Analysis, Market Trend
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Culture, Social Studies, International Relations, World History, Cultural Diversity, Socioeconomics, Public History, Labor Law, Political Sciences, Trend Analysis, Economics, Business Economics
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Minnesota
Skills you'll gain: Predictive Modeling, Predictive Analytics, Business Analytics, Customer Analysis, Project Design, Applied Machine Learning, Solution Design, Sprint Planning, Machine Learning, Brainstorming, Trend Analysis, Design Thinking, Analysis, Decision Tree Learning, Deep Learning, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Quality Control
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Lean Six Sigma, Performance Improvement, Statistical Process Controls, Operational Analysis, Process Improvement, Statistical Methods, Continuous Improvement Process, Innovation, Operations Management, Probability & Statistics, Problem Solving
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Facebook, Content Performance Analysis, Drive Engagement, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Target Audience, Instagram, Customer Insights, Advertising, Web Analytics, Social Work
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Tableau Software, Dashboard, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Data Analysis, Sales Strategy, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Trend Analysis, Performance Analysis, Investment Management, Financial Data
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Looker (Software), Data Modeling, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Maintenance, Problem Management, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Analysis Software, Google Cloud Platform
Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Board Infinity
Skills you'll gain: Data Literacy, Data Analysis, Trend Analysis, Data Presentation, Analytical Skills, Analysis, Data Visualization, Logical Reasoning, Arithmetic, Estimation, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Kibana, Interactive Data Visualization, Business Analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Data Presentation, System Monitoring, Web Analytics, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Visualization Software, Trend Analysis, Data Analysis, Automation, Business Intelligence, Data Wrangling, Retail Sales, Scripting, Devops Tools, Python Programming, Data Science
Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 4 Weeks