Foundations in data analysis: techniques to unlock insights

A course for anyone who is interested in quickly improving their data analysis skills. Experienced or new will benefit.

Created by: Jef Jacobs
Economist, academic and strategist

What Will I Learn?

• Apply the right techniques for the type of data
• Compare data by using averages, medians and modes
• Further analyse data by its shape using histograms and other data visualizations
• Measure and describe the spread of data around the average
• Measure the strength of a relationship between two variables
• Construct confidence intervals to describe how trustworthy and an average really is
• Complete a t-test to compare how similar or different two sets of data are
• Learn how to analyse wage data and identify gender discrimination

Requirements

• High school mathematics and some basic statistics
• Some experience with Microsoft Excel

Target audience

• Students studying economics, finance or social sciences
• Anyone interested economics, statistics or finance
• Aspiring or experienced data scientists, analysts or researchers
• Monitoring and Evaluation practitioners and other researchers