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Hello and welcome to this
course on statistics.

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In this course, our goal is to

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make learning statistics fun and

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enable you to apply
statistical methods

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for data analysis
and Data Science.

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My name is Murtaza Haider,

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I'm your instructor
for this course.

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I'm also an associate
professor at

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the Ted Rogers School
of Management at

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Ryerson University in Toronto.

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The author of Getting
Started with Data Science,

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Making Sense of Data
with Analytics.

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My research interests
are in urban economics

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as they relate to housing
markets and transportation.

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I blog regularly, and you can

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find my blogs on Huffington Post.

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By way of training,

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I have a Master's in
Transportation Engineering

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and Planning and

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a PhD in Civil Engineering

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with a focus on Urban
Systems Analysis.

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My name is Aije Egwaikhide.

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I'm the co-instructor
for this course.

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I'm a Senior Data Scientist
and Statisticians

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with the IBM developers
skills networks team.

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I have field experience
working on supervised and

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unsupervised Machine
Learning algorithms

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for oil and gas clients.

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During my high school in Nigeria,

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it was easy to put
off mathematics and

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statistics and focus on the
seemingly easier courses.

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I always love a good challenge.

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My interest in statistics
and mathematics

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spiked as a result of

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people around me
saying it was hard.

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So I made my parents
invest in textbooks

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and I always made sure to
be ahead of the class.

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When I got to the
University of Manitoba

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for my undergrad,

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picking statistics alongside
economics was easy.

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When I had to do a postgrad,

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picking Data Science
and Business Analytics

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was a no-brainer.

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On my off days,

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I'm a fashion and carrier
blogger on Instagram.

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This course consists of

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five modules: Introduction
and Descriptive Statistics,

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Data Visualization,

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Introduction to
Probability Distribution,

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Hypothesis Testing, and
Regression Analysis.

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Each module will comprise
of four to six videos,

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and we'll include exercises
for you to practice on.

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The hands-on lab will utilize

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Jupiter Notebooks using the
Python programming language,

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which is one of the easiest

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programming languages to learn.

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Let's get started
and happy learning.