Author: O. Theobald
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Data is collected constantly - who we frequently interact with on Facebook, how far we traveled today, and where we spend our money - and every tiny bit of data has a story to tell. On their own, these specs of information are virtually insignificant beyond a standalone measurement. A measurement of a single transaction, a single action, and a single journey, and while that single record of something is not entirely useless, its full value remains uncultivated.
New fields of data analysis, whether they be machine learning, data mining, natural language processing and recommender systems provide powerful tools to unlock the underlying patterns and hidden insight of the data created, collected, and stored in troves each day.
But behind each new technique to analyze data remains an old way of looking for insight - one that predates microchips and computers by thousands of years. That lens to deciphering numbers and underlying patterns is the reliable field of statistics. Statistics touches upon all aspects of data including the planning of data collection and storage, and provides the foundation for advanced analysis techniques including machine learning and data mining.
In this absolute beginners introduction to statistics, you will learn important techniques to analyze data, including linear regression, standard deviation, and clustering, to prepare you for further study in the field of data science.
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