PLEASE NOTE!!! Once you have registered for the course, you will be sent a link to screen cast (videos) to watch in advance of the online sessions which take place on the 8th and 15th April

This course will help you develop basic knowledge to perform statistical analysis and interpret your work to data informed decision making.

This session will cover understanding the fundamentals of statistics including:

• Working with different types of data sets
• Plotting types of data
• Measuring of mean, median and standard deviation
• Summarising numeric and categorical data
• Quantifying differences and associations between groups of data
• Estimating confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing and p-values
• An introduction to regression

DA-x (Data Analytics for Everyone) consists of a series of short courses and clinics, designed by the Institute of Coding (IoC) and University of Sunderland, to help upskill anyone in business who wants to get to grips with understanding and visualising data to inform decision making and drive greater efficiency or productivity within their business.

Courses are designed for anyone who works in areas such as administration, marketing, HR, finance or those in business who want to gain the practical skills that can help make better use of their data.

DA-x series consists of 3 free 1 day courses:

• Coding for Data Analysis and Visualisation
  

• Statistical Data Analysis

• Machine Learning for Data Analysis
  

Each course is supported by 'data clinics' designed to help contextualise and embed newly learnt skills in the workplace.

Please note: In order to register for this 1 day course, it is advisable that you have also attended the previous session 'Coding for Data Analytics' which was run on the 12th March or one of our Coding 101 courses. If you would like to download course material from either of these sessions please email gavin.mcClary@sunderland.ac.uk