Hello and welcome to this course on statistics.
In this course, our goal is to
make learning statistics fun and
enable you to apply statistical methods
for data analysis and Data Science.
My name is Murtaza Haider,
I'm your instructor for this course.
I'm also an associate professor at
the Ted Rogers School of Management at
Ryerson University in Toronto.
The author of Getting Started with Data Science,
Making Sense of Data with Analytics.
My research interests are in urban economics
as they relate to housing markets and transportation.
I blog regularly, and you can
find my blogs on Huffington Post.
By way of training,
I have a Master's in Transportation Engineering
and Planning and
a PhD in Civil Engineering
with a focus on Urban Systems Analysis.
My name is Aije Egwaikhide.
I'm the co-instructor for this course.
I'm a Senior Data Scientist and Statisticians
with the IBM developers skills networks team.
I have field experience working on supervised and
unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms
for oil and gas clients.
During my high school in Nigeria,
it was easy to put off mathematics and
statistics and focus on the seemingly easier courses.
I always love a good challenge.
My interest in statistics and mathematics
spiked as a result of
people around me saying it was hard.
So I made my parents invest in textbooks
and I always made sure to be ahead of the class.
When I got to the University of Manitoba
for my undergrad,
picking statistics alongside economics was easy.
When I had to do a postgrad,
picking Data Science and Business Analytics
was a no-brainer.
On my off days,
I'm a fashion and carrier blogger on Instagram.
This course consists of
five modules: Introduction and Descriptive Statistics,
Data Visualization,
Introduction to Probability Distribution,
Hypothesis Testing, and Regression Analysis.
Each module will comprise of four to six videos,
and we'll include exercises for you to practice on.
The hands-on lab will utilize
Jupiter Notebooks using the Python programming language,
which is one of the easiest
programming languages to learn.
Let's get started and happy learning.