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By: Lannah Saldana The class discussions last August 22 and 24 revolved around two major topics: descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics show the characteristics and behavior of

The introduction to Business Analytics consisted of the fundamental processes at the start and end of a data analysis project. The topics discussed were exploratory procedures such as selecting, filtering,