Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to decode the statistics that pop up on a daily basis—from political polls to football scores. Eddie Davila explores a different real-world topic each week.
Syllabus
Introduction
- The statistics of everyday life
- Political polls
- Different sports, different stats
- Test scores
- Data collection
- Birthdays in the USA
- The house always wins
- Wisdom of the crowd
- The pay gap at Uber
- Cancer survival rates
- Television ratings
- Historic stats stories
- The one percent
- New Year's Eve
- Influenza
- Winter is coming
- The Super Bowl
- Genetics
- Relationships
- The box office
- Unemployment
- Waiting in lines
- Sleep
- March Madness
- Measuring what's important in business
- Baseball
- Income tax statistics
- College waiting lists
- The normal distribution is everywhere
- Horse racing statistics
- Statistics and the insurance industry
- Restaurant statistics
- Catching criminals with statistics
- Getting directions from statistics
- Lyme disease
- Quality control in manufacturing
- Zoo animal statistics
- Earthquakes
- Statistics of hunting
- Transcontinental convoy
- Moon landing
- Summer movies
- Reliability
- Woodstock
- Hurricanes
- P-hacking
- Salaries
- Dow Jones
- Population
- Epidemiology
- Rock stars
- Acceptance sampling
- The value of my change
- In-game win probabilities
- Stock market ups and downs
- Prohibition
- Bayes' theorem
- Divorce
- The U.S. Census
- English
- Santa Claus
- Parenting
- Proportions of coins
- Safe travel
- Election polling methodologies
- Is your data any good?
- Storytelling with data
- The middle of my data
- The ubiquitous bell curve
- Decoding polling results
- What is an outlier?
- Statistical bias
- The importance of regression analysis
- Understanding probabilities
- Statistics tools
- Modern organizations use statistics
- Combinations
- Measuring variation
- Sample space
- Election win probabilities
- Cognitive bias
- Forecasting
- Toilet paper
- Winning streaks
- Coffee
- Vaccines
- Superfans
- US Presidents
- The cost of owning a pet
- Funny movies
- Success in the music industry
- Home Improvement
- Youth sports
- Mental health
- Chocolate
- Baby statistics
- Books
- Commutes
- Farms
- Hip hop
- Mass transit
- Major league baseball
- Placebos
- Podcasts
- Social media
- Supply chains
Taught by
Eddie Davila
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