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Udacity: New Statistics Courses: Understand & Make Predictions Using Data
Quick, how long is your daily commute to work? (or to school, coffee shop, or favorite breakfast hangout)? If you came up with an answer, then you already are a statistician! If you came up with an answer like “It usually takes me 30 minutes,” then you are already using the subject of our new course, Descriptive Statistics, to describe and summarize data. If you came up with an answer like “It usually takes me 30 minutes, give or take about 5 minutes,” you are already constructing confidence intervals, a topic covered in our second new course, Inferential Statistics! Why should you learn statistics? Statistics is formalized intuition. Most people already use it on a daily basis (most people...that sounds like a statistics word, right?). In these two introductory courses, you will learn the difference between probability and statistics, and see how statistics is pervasive in our personal and professional life. Even…