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    Master descriptive statistics for summarizing and describing data. Learn to use statistical measures, graphs, and tables for data analysis.

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      University of Pennsylvania

      Wharton Business and Financial Modeling Capstone

      Skills you'll gain: Portfolio Management, Financial Modeling, Presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint, Investment Management, Business Modeling, Data Modeling, Quantitative Research, Business Analytics, Risk Modeling, Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis, Regression Analysis

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      514 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Coursera Project Network

      Portfolio Diversification using Correlation Matrix

      Skills you'll gain: Portfolio Management, Financial Management, Risk Management, Investment Management, Financial Market, Financial Modeling, Investments, Correlation Analysis, Analysis, Statistics

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      284 reviews

      Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Google

      Google Marketing Digital e E-Commerce

      Skills you'll gain: Email Marketing, Data Storytelling, Social Media Marketing, Loyalty Programs, Search Engine Optimization, Marketing Budgets, Social Media, Order Fulfillment, Media Planning, Search Engine Marketing, Paid media, Customer Retention, Google Ads, Marketing Analytics, Social Media Strategy, Web Analytics, E-Commerce, Customer Engagement, Marketing, Campaign Management

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      4.6K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      Johns Hopkins University

      Precalculus through Data and Modelling

      Skills you'll gain: Data Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Graphing, Trigonometry, R (Software), Analytical Skills, General Mathematics, Statistics, Algebra, Systems Of Measurement, Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis, Calculus, Geometry

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      314 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Coursera Project Network

      Aggregate Data in SQL using MySQL Workbench

      Skills you'll gain: MySQL, SQL, MySQL Workbench, Query Languages, Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis

      Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      IBM

      Supervised Machine Learning: Classification

      Skills you'll gain: Supervised Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Applied Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Data Processing, Data Cleansing, Machine Learning, Regression Analysis, Data Manipulation, Business Analytics, Feature Engineering, Random Forest Algorithm, Statistical Modeling, Sampling (Statistics), Performance Metric

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      425 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Codio

      Data Science and Analysis Tools - from Jupyter to R Markdown

      Skills you'll gain: Rmarkdown, Plot (Graphics), Box Plots, Descriptive Statistics, Scatter Plots, Histogram, Jupyter, Matplotlib, Data Presentation, Ggplot2, Statistical Visualization, R (Software), Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Correlation Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Data Analysis, Data Import/Export, R Programming, Python Programming

      3.9
      Rating, 3.9 out of 5 stars
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      25 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      University of Lausanne

      Challenging Forensic Science: How Science Should Speak to Court

      Skills you'll gain: Criminal Investigation and Forensics, Legal Proceedings, Laboratory Reports, Scientific Methods, Statistical Analysis, Report Writing, Probability & Statistics, Research, Technical Communication, Case Studies, Molecular Biology

      4.9
      Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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      521 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      IBM

      Applied Data Science with R

      Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Interactive Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Database Design, Shiny (R Package), Data Visualization, Data Wrangling, Dashboard, Exploratory Data Analysis, Relational Databases, Data Analysis, Ggplot2, Data Presentation, SQL, Plot (Graphics), Databases, Leaflet (Software), Data Manipulation, Web Scraping, R Programming

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      1.2K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      EDUCBA

      Visualize Supermarket Sales with Kibana

      Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Interactive Data Visualization, Business Analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Kibana, Data Analysis, Data Visualization Software, Data Transformation, Exploratory Data Analysis, Trend Analysis, Retail Sales, Data Import/Export

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of Pennsylvania

      AI and Machine Learning Essentials with Python

      Skills you'll gain: Statistical Machine Learning, PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Statistical Methods, Probability, Probability & Statistics, Sampling (Statistics), Deep Learning, Probability Distribution, Python Programming, Supervised Learning, Statistics, Machine Learning Methods, Machine Learning, Regression Analysis, Data Processing, Agentic systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Algorithms

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      31 reviews

      Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      University of Colorado Boulder

      Efficient Programming

      Skills you'll gain: Software Architecture, Cloud Development

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular descriptive statistics courses

    • Wharton Business and Financial Modeling Capstone: University of Pennsylvania
    • Portfolio Diversification using Correlation Matrix: Coursera Project Network
    • Google Marketing Digital e E-Commerce: Google
    • Precalculus through Data and Modelling: Johns Hopkins University
    • Aggregate Data in SQL using MySQL Workbench: Coursera Project Network
    • Supervised Machine Learning: Classification: IBM
    • Data Science and Analysis Tools - from Jupyter to R Markdown: Codio
    • Challenging Forensic Science: How Science Should Speak to Court: University of Lausanne
    • Applied Data Science with R: IBM
    • Visualize Supermarket Sales with Kibana: EDUCBA

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