Skip to 0 minutes and 9 seconds Statistics and programming are the two skills you need to master data science and business analytics. Maybe you are curious about these skills, or maybe you have taken some courses already. But did you find yourself still wondering about the intuition behind statistics and coding? What do these formulas mean? What is their purpose? And how do they help us face real business challenges? And why do we have to write code to achieve this? In this course, we will see how programming can give you a fresh insight into data analytics. Learn to unpack the true power of a computer. It can help you conduct simulations, run algorithms, and visualize data.
Skip to 0 minutes and 53 seconds I’m Professor Soumya Ray, and I will be your guide through this introduction to computational statistics for analytics. Join us and discover the vivid world of computational statistics, where data analysis comes alive in your computer. This course will take the fear factor out of programming and statistics. You will learn important concepts through visualization and simulation. During the course, you will regularly practice your new skills on real data sets. We will learn all this in a social way. You will review and discuss other learner solutions to see how they approach the same problems. You will read blogs and forums where experts share their real world experience.
Skip to 1 minute and 37 seconds These lifelong habits of reading and sharing are how data scientists keep themselves at the cutting edge at all times. We welcome beginners and experienced learners alike. If you have already studied some basic statistics or programming, this course will give you key insights you may have missed and give you a friendly look at techniques that beginners don’t usually get a chance to see. If you are new to statistics or programming, this can be a fun challenge to teach yourself these techniques for the first time. You’ve got nothing to lose. Give it a shot. Let this course be your foundation to a future in data science and business analytics. Welcome to our class, and see you soon.
