Welcome to this session on the ‘Basics of Statistics’. The aim of this session is to introduce you to some basics of data and data analysis.
You will learn about the following concepts in this session.
What data is and why it important to use data to back decisions
The need to visualise data and some useful data visualisation tools
Data interpretation through data visualisation tools
Note: This session does not have graded questions. Instead, the final segment in this session, titled ‘Practice Assessments’, contains practice questions to help you strengthen your conceptual understanding and learnings from this session.
Thomas Dougherty
Xpert, upGrad
Thomas has a long association with the field of data science. He has experience of working with data and has taught data science. He is currently an Executive in Residence at a well-known university in Rhode Island, USA. Prior to working as an Executive in Residence, Thomas has led data science teams across many industries, including the travel, telecom, automotive, consulting and investment industries, to name a few.
The transcript of this session is provided below for your reference.
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