Master Data Analysis with Open Source Software

Create great looking charts, conduct statistical analysis, and interpret the results with open source software.

What you'll learn

Perform basic data analysis and data visualization.
Create data plots and charts of data.
Perform basic statistical analysis of data.

Requirements

Access to a computer
Free download of OpenOffice
Free download of Gnumeric Spreadsheet

Description

Welcome!


Course Objectives

This course will help you quickly and effectively analyze , visualize, and interpret data. After completing this course, you will be able to quickly and efficiently create charts, diagrams, describe basic statistics, and interpret the results of a regression analysis. The best part is that this course is designed around free and open software. You will not have to spend hundreds of dollars on proprietary software to conduct statistics.


About the Instructor

Robert Reed is a current Masters of Business Administration candidate and veteran with four years of service in the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. He holds a B.A. in Economics and has served as a student tutor for three years.

Who this course is for:

Beginning Statistics students who don't want to pay for proprietary statistics software
This is not for students who have already taken a college level statistics class
Students seeking a quick explanation of basic statistics