Data and Statistics (For Business and Economics)

Course details

This Statistics course is your first step to learn how to make sense of piles of data using the graphical and numerical measures. It has students (from over130countries), includingabsolute beginners in Statisticsand professionals from other fields.Here is what some of them have to say:

"Simple to understand and follow; graphics are clean and easy to read" ~ Linda Chisholm

"The instructor explained three different ways to calculate frequency in Excel." ~ Diane Dye

Course Description:

This Statisticscourse is designed for students and businesseswho want to learn how to summarize data and communicate the results effectively. In this course, I will take you throughthe tabular,graphical and numericalmethods that one can use to turndata into information using Microsoft Excel.

There are no prerequisites required to take this course as I will start all the concepts from scratch.

A glimpse of what you are going to learn in 3 hours:

• Basics of Data - Collection Techniques and Types
• Tabular and Graphical methods available to summarize the data (along with their working in MSExcel) depending on what type of data we have
• Tips to use while deciding which chart type to choose for summarizing your data (Not every chart or graph is suitable for all kinds of data)
• Tips on how to get your audience's attention, how to make your data speak
• Applications to solidify your learning
• Numerical measures to summarize data
• Mean, Median, Mode - Which one is the best measure?
  
  

Still wondering if this course is useful?
Well, here is our take - Its better to spenda couple of hours learning how to summarize and present your data than spending days to try and make sense of the data without knowing these methods.

All that said, lets get started..!