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11 hours

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Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Data ' What It Is, What We Can Do With It
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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 1 of 5 in the Data Literacy Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level An interest in learning how to make sense of data
  • Approx. 11 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: English
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  • 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
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Curriculum

Data and Theories

Welcome Video

Statistical Inference

Components of Scientific Research

Scientific Theories

Big Data is Not About the Data!

We're All Social Scientists Now

Theories in Scientific Research

Final Quiz

The Causality Framework

Causal Effects and the Counterfactual

Randomized Controlled Trials

Observational Studies: Overview

Observational Studies: Strategies for Estimating Causal Effects

Causal Inference Based on Counterfactuals

A Simplified Guide to Randomized Controlled Trials

Difference-in-Difference Estimation

Practice Problem

Practice Problems

Practice Problems

Final Quiz

Descriptive Statistics

Why do we need descriptive statistics?

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Spread

Dispersion

Descriptive Statistics: Introduction

Measures of the Center of the Data

Measures of the Location of the Data

Measures of the Spread of the Data

Skewness and the Mean, Median and Mode

Practice Problems

Practice Problems

Practice Problems

Final Quiz

Visualizations

Elements of Good Visualizations

Bar Plots, Histograms and Box Plots

Scatter Plots, Line Graphs and Side-by-Side Bar Graphs

Publication, Publication

A Complete Guide To Bar Charts

Comparing Box Plots and Histograms

A Complete Guide to Scatter Plots

Practice Problems

Practice Problems

Practice Problems

Final Quiz

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    May 25, 2024
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