Tutorials: Basic Concepts of Quantitative Data Analysis

The Basics: Understand Data

One of the most important things in Statistics and Data Science is understanding your data. This is so fundamental, that you shouldn't move on to more advanced tutorials. ...

In this tutorial, you will learn about understanding the data that has already been collected. If you conduct your research, it is really important to understand these concepts and think about them in your research design phase. The readings below provide you with a good overview of Quantitative Research Design. ...

Getting to grips with these concepts is fundamental.  The above concepts are fundamental. Getting this wrong later can lead to a meaningless analysis. This page goes over these fundamental concepts. ...

Descriptive Stats & Basic Correlation

In this tutorial you will learn how to describe your data. This will include looking at measures of central tendancy, the normal distribution and ....

In this tutorial, you will learn how to present the data. Here you will learn how to visualise data and present it to your readers ....

Understanding correlations is central to statistics and quantitative data analysis. Here you will learn some basic correlations used to make sense of your data. ... 

Combining Data

A dataset can have hundreds if not thousands of different variables. IN in this tutorial, you will learn techniques that allow you to combine some of these variables into one or more new variables ... 

Regression Modelling

This tutorial covers the basics of regression analysis. You will learn what it is, how it works and when to use it. You will also learn how to diagnose your analysis. ... 

This tutorial takes the lessons on regression further. You will learn how to check your assumptions. You will also learn how to use Logistic Regressions ...