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Practical Statistics for Everyday Decisions
Turn spreadsheets of orders, surveys, and tickets into confident, data-backed decisions.
For analysts, marketers, and managers who work in Excel and want to make decisions from data with confidence..
- 8 modules
- 7 lessons of 43 planned
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Welcome to the course: what you will learn
Welcome
5 min
Module 1: Data Foundations with Pandas
6 lessons
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Track overview: Describing and Understanding Data
Introduction
5 min
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Why statistics matters for everyday decisions: from gut feel to numbers
Lesson 1
8 min
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Loading and inspecting data: pandas DataFrames for order and survey data
Lesson 2
9 min
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Cleaning messy data: missing values, duplicates, and data types
Lesson 3
10 min
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Grouping and summarizing: pandas groupby for quick business answers
Lesson 4
11 min
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Project: build a clean orders dataset and answer three business questions
Lesson 5
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Module 2: Describing Data: Center and Spread
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Mean, median, and mode: which average tells the truth
Lesson 1
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Spread: range, variance, and standard deviation explained simply
Lesson 2
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Percentiles and quartiles: finding typical and extreme values
Lesson 3
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Box plots: spotting outliers and comparing groups at a glance
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Project: describe support ticket resolution times and flag outliers
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Module 3: Visualizing Distributions
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Histograms: seeing the shape of your data with matplotlib
Lesson 1
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Skewness and shape: symmetric, left-skewed, right-skewed data
Lesson 2
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Comparing distributions across groups: overlays and small multiples
Lesson 3
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Choosing the right chart: histogram vs box plot vs bar chart
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Project: compare order values across customer segments visually
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Module 4: Probability and Distributions in Plain Words
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Probability basics: chances, odds, and everyday misunderstandings
Lesson 1
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The normal distribution: the bell curve and the 68-95-99.7 rule
Lesson 2
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The binomial distribution: counting successes in repeated trials
Lesson 3
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Expected value: what it means and how to compute it in Python
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Project: estimate expected revenue from a promotion using probability
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Module 5: Sampling and Uncertainty
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Track overview: Testing Ideas and Finding Relationships
Introduction
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Populations vs samples: why we can't survey everyone
Lesson 1
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Why samples vary: sampling error and the sampling distribution
Lesson 2
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The Central Limit Theorem in plain words, with a simulation
Lesson 3
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Confidence intervals: how sure are we about an estimate
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Project: estimate average order value with a confidence interval
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Module 6: Hypothesis Testing Without Fear
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What a hypothesis test actually does: null, alternative, and logic
Lesson 1
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P-values explained: what they do and don't mean
Lesson 2
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Common traps: p-hacking, multiple testing, and misreading significance
Lesson 3
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One-sample and two-sample t-tests in Python
Lesson 4
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Project: test whether a new checkout page changed average order value
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Module 7: A/B Testing in Practice
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Designing a fair A/B test: randomization and sample size
Lesson 1
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Testing conversion rates: proportions and the chi-square test
Lesson 2
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Reading A/B test results: effect size, confidence, and business impact
Lesson 3
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When A/B tests mislead: peeking early, novelty effects, and seasonality
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Project: analyze a website A/B test and recommend a decision
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Module 8: Relationships: Correlation and Regression
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Correlation: measuring how two variables move together
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Correlation is not causation: classic traps and how to spot them
Lesson 2
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Simple linear regression: fitting a line to explain a relationship
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Interpreting regression output: slope, intercept, and R-squared
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Project: predict support ticket volume from orders and decide staffing
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