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Introduction

Author

Clayton Cafiero

Published

2025-01-05

What follows in this chapter is merely a tiny peek into the huge topic of data analysis and presentation. This is not intended to be a substitute for a course in statistics. There are plenty of good textbooks on the subject (and plenty of courses at any university), so what鈥檚 presented here is just a little something to get you started in Python.

Learning objectives

  • You will gain a rudimentary understanding of two important descriptive statistics: the mean and standard deviation.
  • You will understand how to calculate these statistics and be able to implement them on your own in Python.
  • You will learn the basics of Matplotlib鈥檚 Pyplot interface, and be able to use matplotlib.pyplot to create line, bar, and scatter plots.

Terms introduced

  • arithmetic mean
  • central tendency
  • descriptive statistics
  • Matplotlib
  • normal distribution
  • quantile (including quartile, quintile, percentile)
  • standard deviation

Copyright 漏 2023鈥�2025 Clayton Cafiero

No generative AI was used in producing this material. This was written the old-fashioned way.

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