Learn how to apply and appreciate statistics in daily life across a wide range of real-world scenarios, in this course adapted from the popular series Everyday Statistics.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Use statistics to understand the world around you
- Different sports, different stats
- The house always wins
- The Super Bowl
- March Madness
- Baseball
- Horse racing statistics
- In-Game win probabilities
- Winning streak
- Superfans
- Youth sports
- Major League Baseball
- The pay gap at Uber
- The One Percent
- Unemployment
- Measuring what's important in business
- Income tax statistics
- Statistics and the insurance industry
- Restaurant statistics
- Quality control in manufacturing
- Reliability
- Salaries
- Dow Jones
- Acceptance sampling
- Stock market ups and downs
- Modern organizations use statistics
- Toilet paper
- Farms
- Supply chains
- Television ratings
- The box office
- Summer movies
- Rock stars
- Santa Claus
- Coffee
- Funny movies
- Success in the movie industry
- Chocolate
- Books
- Hip-hop
- Podcasts
- Data collection
- Wisdom of the crowd
- Historic stats stories
- Waiting in lines
- The normal distribution is everywhere
- P-hacking
- The value of my change
- Bayes' theorem
- Proportions of coins
- Is your data any good?
- Storytelling with data
- The middle of data
- The ubiquitous bell curve
- What is an outlier?
- Statistical bias
- The importance of regression analysis
- Understanding probabilities
- Statistics tools
- Combinations
- Measuring variation
- Sample space
- Cognitive bias
- Forecasting
- Birthdays in the USA
- New Year's Eve
- Relationships
- Sleep
- Catching criminals with statistics
- Getting directions from statistics
- Population
- Divorce
- English
- Parenting
- Safe travel
- The cost of owning a pet
- Home improvement
- Baby statistics
- Commutes
- Mass transit
- Social media
- Winter is coming
- Zoo animal statistics
- Earthquakes
- Statistics of hunting
- Hurricanes
- Cancer survival rates
- Influenza
- Genetics
- Lyme disease
- Epidemiology
- Vaccines
- Mental health
- Placebos
- Transcontinental convoy
- Moon landing
- Woodstock
- Prohibition
- U.S. presidents
- Test scores
- College wait lists
- Political polls
- The U.S. census
- Election polling methodologies
- Decoding polling results
- Election win probabilities
- Next steps and additional resources
Taught by
Eddie Davila