inf-428-data-analytics-online

Descriptive Statistics in Practice

• Summarize raw data
• Compute metrics like mean and standard deviation

In Python

Review and run the Descriptive Statistics Notebook on the course github repository.

In KNIME

This video shows how to open up NBA Basketball Star Jayson Tatum’s stats in KNIME, and compute basic statistics with them

If you prefer to skip the video try performing the following steps in KNIME (if you are not yet comfortable with terms like ‘node repository’ I suggest watching the video).

1. Search for ‘Statistics’ in the KNIME node repository (bottom left panel)
2. Drag the Statistics node into your workflow
3. Connect a data table (for example from a file reader to your Statistics Node.
4. right click on the statistics node to get the node’s menu/
5. Then choose ‘View Statistics View’, or ‘Statistics Table’