Dummy guides / Educational books about Data and Statistics (Quantitative analysis)

Yogo

Any brainy math people who can recommend me a good beginners guide / book to statistical quantitative analysis?

While I am pretty good at doing analysis over a set of given data, I am woefully inexperienced with any sort of predictive analysis over how the data might look like in the future.

Hopefully some insights into some methods will help in regards to A/B tests, weighted averages and so on.

Any help is appreciated.

Enc

Depending on how deep you want to go into stats, there are a lot of resources out there. A quick google for MOOC (massive online open courses) revealed this listing: https://www.mooc-list.com/tags/statistics Which has a bunch of varying levels of coursework for free you can enroll yourself in and work on over time.

The actual "For Dummies" website also has some generalized instructions for basic statistics in both descriptive and predictive: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/education-languages/math/statistics/Statistics-Basics.html

What are you looking to use this for? Is this to supplement a college course? Help target a requirement for work? General education?

minirhyder

There are a few [free] inferential statistics courses on Coursera that span several months.

Daenris

minirhyder wrote: »

There are a few [free] inferential statistics courses on Coursera that span several months.

Yeah, there's actually a whole track of 9 data science courses provided by Johns Hopkins on there. If you don't care about getting a "specialization certificate" and doing the capstone, you can take them for free.

Yogo

Thanks for the links. Should have thought of checking out Coursera before I even asked

Enc wrote: »

Depending on how deep you want to go into stats, there are a lot of resources out there. A quick google for MOOC (massive online open courses) revealed this listing: https://www.mooc-list.com/tags/statistics Which has a bunch of varying levels of coursework for free you can enroll yourself in and work on over time.

The actual "For Dummies" website also has some generalized instructions for basic statistics in both descriptive and predictive: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/education-languages/math/statistics/Statistics-Basics.html

What are you looking to use this for? Is this to supplement a college course? Help target a requirement for work? General education?

Mostly general education. I'm having a hard time breaking through in the data specialist job market in Denmark despite there being an increasingly bigger demand for data specialists. I assume it is mostly due to my untraditional educational background (language, culture, IT and journalism) whereas most assume you must have studied hardcore statistics / math. Since I'm poor and can't afford to enroll at Uni again, I'm looking towards reading to supplement the missing areas.