Welcome

An Introduction
to Data Science

A free, beginner-friendly course for middle & high school students — no math anxiety required.

Who is this for?

🏫 Middle school students 🎓 High school students 👩‍🏫 Teachers & educators 🌱 Anyone curious about data

No prior statistics knowledge needed. The focus is on thinking about data, not on complex formulas.

What you'll learn

📊 Why statistics matter in real life 🧬 Genetic diversity & variation 📐 Means, medians & distributions 🎲 Probability & z-scores 🔬 Hypothesis testing 📉 t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square 🔗 Correlations & regression

How each lesson works

💡 Concept-first — big ideas before the math

📖 Deep-dive resources if you want more

💻 R code to reproduce every figure

Developed alongside Wisconsin Fast Plants experiments — real science, real data.

11 Lessons to explore

Lesson 1Why data science?

Lesson 2Genetic diversity

Lesson 3Means & medians

Lesson 4Variance & distributions

Lesson 5Probability & z-scores

Lesson 6Hypothesis testing

Lesson 7Comparing 2 groups

Lesson 8Comparing 2+ groups

Lesson 9Comparing frequencies

Lesson 10Correlations

Lesson 11Stats in the real world

Ready to start?

Explore the course
— it's completely free.

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