SEU ULI CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE Lecture | Tutorial | Practical/ Practice IT Skills and | 2 0 0 2 ‘lass NIL [Data Analysis| TT LI Learning Objectives ‘The primary objectives of the course will be to: ‘© Familiarise the student with the quantitative skills required for representing and interpreting data for the purpose of decision making. ‘® Equip the student with some fundamental concepts, which play a critical role in understanding and visualizing real world data. © Enable the student to analyze data and problem situations using relevant IT tools. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course students will be able to ‘© Represent and interpret data in tabular and graphical forms © Understand and interpret the measures of central tendency and dispersion. ‘+ Use IT tools such as spreadsheets to visualise and analyse data, PEDAGOGY Relevant concepts and theory will be introduced which will be supplemented by hands-on activities enabled by the use of spreadsheets. This is a two credit course and will comprise two lecture periods per week. As this is essentially an activity-based course, it will involve two consecutive lecture periods, once in a week.SYLLABUS, Practical . . . Unit I: What is Statisties 2 (24 hours) This unit provides an introduction to the fundamentals of datasets, sources of data, frequency distributions and graphical representations of data, The aim is to give students a hands-on experience of initiating data analysis through a spreadsheet. Concept of datasets (Variables, Observations) Reference 1, Chapter 2 Different types of variables (Quantitative and Qualitative) Reference 1, Chapter 2 Distinction between primary and secondary sources of data Reference 1, Chapter 2 Basic idea of using questionnaire to collect primary data for analysis Reference 2, Chapter 1 [Section 1.6] How to construct a questionnaire Reference 1, Chapter 1 Concept of frequency distribution: cumulative and relative frequencies Reference 2, Chapter 2 Introduction to spreadsheet Reference 2, Chapter 2 © Tabular and graphical presentation of data: data tables, frequency curve, histogram,bar graphs, pie charts (through the use of spreadsheets) Reference 2, Chapter 2 Unit 11: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion (36 hours) The focus of this unit will be to familiarise the student with summary statistics to describe datasets. In particular, two important characteristics of data, viz., central tendency anddispersion, will be used to summarise datasets using a spreadsheet. The concept of the Normal distribution and its characteristics will be discussed to highlight its relevance in modelling real life phenomenon. ‘© Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode Reference 2, Chapter 3 © Examples of situations where it is appropriate to use the mean, median and mode asa measure of central tendency Reference 2, Chapter 3 © Weighted mean Reference 2, Chapter 3 ‘© Measures of dispersion: range, variance, standard deviation Reference 2, Chapter 3© Quattiles, deciles and percentiles Reference 2, Chapter 3 © Visualize the measures of central tendency and dispersion through frequency curveand histogram Reference 2, Chapter 3 @ Skewness and kurtosis Reference 2, Chapter 3 © Normal curve and its basic properties : visual representation of population characteristics (height, weight, IQ ete.) Reference 2, Chapter 5 [Section 5.6] References (Readings and Resources) 1. Rowntree, D., Statistics without tears - A primer for non-mathematicians, Allyn and Bacon, 2018. 2, Levin, Rubin, Rastogi and Siddiqui, Statistics for Management, 7th Edn, 2014 Suggested Data Sources The following data sets are suggested to carry out the activities hittps://data.worldbank.org/ http://www. statista.com/ hittps://data.gov.in/ https://censusindia.gov.in/ https://www.kaggle.com/ http://data.un.org/ gnaw Weekly Plan Weeks I and IT: Students learn about the concept of datasets (Variables, Observations) ; Different type of Variables (Quantitative and Qualitative); Distinction between primary and secondary sources of data Weeks III and IV: Basic idea of using questionnaire and how to construct a it; Concept of frequency distribution - cumulative and relative frequencies; Introduction to spreadsheetWeeks V and VI: Tabular and graphical presentation of data: data tables, frequency curve, histogram, bar graphs, pie charts. Students to explore various representations on spreadsheet using datasets Weeks VII and VIII: Introduction of Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode through appropriate examples explaining the use of each one of them in various situations. Understanding the concept of Weighted mean; ‘Weeks IX and X: Measures of dispersion: Range, Variance, Standard deviation; Visualizingthe measures of central tendency and dispersion through frequency curve and histogram. Understanding Quartiles, deciles and percentiles numerically. Weeks XI and XIT: Representation of population characteristics using the basic propertiesof a Normal Curve, skewness and kurtosis. Weeks XIII and XIV: Assignments based on Units 1 and 2 using spreadsheets to consolidate the learning of concepts covered. Examination scheme and mode: Evaluation scheme and mode will be as per the guidelines notified by the University of Delhi,