Statistics in Action: Driving Data Insights

This course aims to train you to effectively use R in your statistical analysis for accurate and impactful data-driven decision making.

The Statistics in Action: Driving Data Insights course is more than just an introduction to statistics, it teaches you how to use R, a command driven language for quick visual analytics. In addition, you will be presented with multiple business cases that will be solved in the course of lecturing and hands-on activities.

The lecturers will give extensive illustrations of statistical principles and techniques. Each statistical technique taught will be demonstrated using R so that you can practise R programming in a series of activities. In addition, you will get to dabble with data visualisation including creating graphs.

Ultimately, you will gain insights into how to use statistics to answer your business questions.

This course is part of the Data Science and Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics Practice Series offered by NUS-ISS.

What You'll Learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Use R functions for statistical analysis
• Be proficient in interactive visual analytics
• Compare and evaluate different business strategies
• Make predictions based on relevant factors
• Make better data-driven decisions

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge or familiarity with basic statistics and programming will be useful.