Statistics, Actuarial and Data Sciences: Videos and Analysis Tools

Includes modules on data science.

Includes content on insurance, interest and debt, and investments.

Using the United States economy as an example, this video discusses all of statistical analysis in 3 minutes using the following questions: 1) How big is it? 2) What difference does it make? 3) Are you sure it’s not just dumb luck?

From MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM).

ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.

Tableau Public is a free platform to explore, create and publicly share data visualizations online.

Weka is an open source collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. It contains tools for data preparation, classification, regression, clustering, association rules mining, and visualization.

jamovi is a new “3rd generation” statistical spreadsheet. designed from the ground up to be easy to use, jamovi is a compelling alternative to costly statistical products such as SPSS and SAS.

This web site offers free resources for students and researchers working with statistics in the social sciences. All the calculators and tools featured here have been designed with ease of use and clarity of presentation in mind.

Statistical tests, charts, probabilities and clear results. Automatically checks assumptions, interprets results and outputs graphs, histograms and other charts. The statistics online calculators support not only the test statistic and the p-value but more results like effect size, test power, and the normality level. If one of the validations fails, the tool recommends a solution.

Online tool for statistical computation.