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Intro to Descriptive Statistics

Udacity

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An introductory Udacity course on descriptive statistics, covering basic ways to summarize and describe data such as measures of center, spread, and distributions. It is one of two free introductory statistics courses Udacity offers before its AI nanodegree.

Commenters point to it as a free starting point for statistics, one of the introductory courses Udacity recommends before its AI nanodegree.

Mathematicsbeginnerfreeinteractive MOOC#statistics#descriptive statistics#data analysis#udacity

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  1. Recommendsneovive2018in “Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?”

    Udacity has two free introductory statistics courses that they recommend prior to starting their AI nanodegree program:

    Intro to Descriptive Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-descriptive-statisti...]

    Intro to Inferential Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-inferential-statisti...]

    Khan Academy also has very in-depth coverage of statistics, starting from the basics. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

  2. Mentionsgordon_freeman2019in “Udacity restructures operations, lays off 20 percent of its workforce”

    I completely agree. Udacity was the one that helped me move into my career in data analytics. I took Thrun's excellent Intro to Stats[1] class to brush up my Stats skills along with some other courses such as Intro to Descriptive Stats[2] and Intro to Inferential Stats[3].

    [1] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-statistics--st101

    [2] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-descriptive-statisti...

    [3] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-inferential-statisti...

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