Teaching analytics with modern Excel
It's one of those questions where you could ask 10 data professionals and get 11 answers: what's the difference between statistics, data science and data analytics? (How's that for sample size?) …
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I've been known to kick an occasional hornet's nest on social media, at least when it comes to data. A recent cri de coeur has been to establish the primacy of statistical thinking in everything we do …
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A tabular dataset is arranged in two dimensions -- what in Excel we would call rows and columns, but a fancier statistical way of saying this is observations and variables. …
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Anscombe's quartet is a well-known statistical parlor trick with a powerful message. Fortunately, with the help of the seaborn package as well as pandas, it can be demonstrated in Python with just a …
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The t-test rite of passage I like to use the independent sample t-test to introduce learners to inferential statistics. This test is used to compare whether the average value of one group is …
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Multiple groups and points in time I tend to start teaching inferential with the independent samples t-test, which allows users to compare means between two groups. That may sound so …
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