Learn Statistics For Data Science

Statistics is an important component of data science. Thus, it would be nice to have some resources available.

Learn Statistics For Free Online

Well, here is a list of free statistics resources available online. All of these are fairly introductory, but I am guessing more advanced topics will be coming from these same organizations.

Khan Academy Statistics
Coursera Statistics One by Princeton – I am guessing a Statistics Two will be offered as well
Udacity – Intro to Statistics

Not-Free Resources

In addition to the free resources online, there are other options as well.

Statistics.com – courses are about $400-$500 but programs lead to certificates
Most all local colleges will offer courses in statistics

What other resources are available for learning statistics?

Originally Posted

July 25, 2012

Data Science 101, education

Ryan Swanstrom

Last Modified:

November 11, 2020

Tags:

coursera, data science, khan academy, statistics, statistics.com, udacity

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6 responses to “Learn Statistics For Data Science”

Ivan Brusic

July 25, 2012

The O’Reilly book “Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers” is available online for free at http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/

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Learn Data Science | Data Science 101

July 27, 2012

[…] you have the necessary background in math, statistics, and computer science; then it is a good time to learn some data science specific skills. Coursera […]

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Paras Doshi

July 30, 2012

Videos on Statistics on Khan Academy is a great place to start! Thanks for sharing other links – should be helpful

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1. Ryan Swanstrom
  
  July 30, 2012
  
  Thanks for sharing.
  
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Brijesh bolar

August 18, 2012

In the Non-Free resources one of the great online lectures / tutorials that I have come across is the General Statistics course offered by Educator.com. I am personally using it so I find it good. There are two statistics courses – General Statistics and AP statistics. General Statistics is very comprehensive and also include excel usage for stats.

http://www.educator.com/learn/mathematics/statistics/son/

The course fee is just $10 per month (and you get access to all their courses).. The courses are more structured. Personally I do not prefer Khan Academy coz for a newbie to stats it just solves the stats problem without really teaching the fundamental theory or concepts of stats.

Other lectures for learning stats are – (around 24 lectures, approx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrgEjXGzfg

David Mease lecture on stats are specific for Data Mining and it also cover R software. I would say before attending his sessions get your stat skills brushed up. (around 20 lectures, approx)

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1. Ryan Swanstrom
  
  August 18, 2012
  
  Thanks. I am not familiar with Educator.com. I will have to take a look.
  
  Ryan
  
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