Crash Course Statistics #39: Big Data Problems and Solutions

Statistics come front and center in this unit all about analyzing discrete data. Real-world situations yield data sets that the class then uses to tease out connections and conclusions. Beginning with the basic histogram and...

What makes data big? The 38th installment in the series Crash Course Statistics provides a definition of big data and its origins. It shows various methods and resources on how to collect big data and how companies use big data for a...

The big, the bad, and the ugly of data. The resource picks up from the description of big data and discusses the possible problems. Using examples, the 39th video in the series of Crash Course statistics explains how some use big data...

There is growing evidence that suggests the results of many studies are not reproducible. The 31st lesson of the Crash Course Statistics playlist discusses possible causes of the problem and identifies solutions since producibility is...

A statistic of interest is often affected by multiple variables. Continuing from the previous lesson in the Crash Course Statistics playlist, the instructor explains how to apply the ANOVA calculations to multiple variables that have an...

It's normal to want to learn about normal distribution. The 19th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on how means of sample distributions show a normal distribution. It looks at the Central Limit Theorem and also...

Pair a video with your lesson on t-tests. Viewers of an informative YouTube video, the 27th part of the Crash Course Statistics series, study two sample t-tests and paired t-tests. They see which test would be appropriate for a situation...

It's my hypothesis that watching the video will have a statistically significant effect on your understanding of p-values. The 21st part of the Crash Course Statistics course focuses on null hypothesis significance testing. It explains...

You'll probably end up thinking about randomness the next time you eat fries. The 17th video in the Crash Course Statistics series uses an analysis of McDonald's french fries to look at the mean and expected value of random...

Introduce your class to the value and practical applications of statistics. This is the first unit in a series completely focused on describing the three main activities involved with statistics. This video provides an overview of data...