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About the Course
This course introduces students to data and statistics. By the end of the course, students should be able to interpret descriptive statistics, causal analyses and visualizations to draw meaningful insights.
The course first introduces a framework for thinking about the various purposes of statistical analysis. We’ll talk about how analysts use data for descriptive, causal and predictive inference. We’ll then cover how to develop a research study for causal analysis, compute and interpret descriptive statistics and design effective visualizations. The course will help you to become a thoughtful and critical consumer of analytics.
If you are in a field that increasingly relies on data-driven decision making, but you feel unequipped to interpret and evaluate data, this course will help you develop these fundamental tools of data literacy.
Top reviews
RK
Jan 18, 2022
Some of the quiz questions feel a bit unfair. Answers that are "Accurate, but..." do not feel appropriate for these kinds of lessons.
HO
Jul 29, 2023
it was very helpful as it provided me with general idea on how to analyze and interpret data
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By Troy G
•Sep 5, 2025
This was about data, but nearly every example seemed to choose politically motivated data sets. Some of the articles referenced in the course did a much better job of letting data speak for itself without using what some can consider divisive content.
By Chandrakant B
•Mar 7, 2021
Without my permission money has been deducted, looters
By mohammad
•Jan 31, 2021
boring and like a machine recorded text to speech