Basic Statistics with Computer Applications

The course aims to provide basic knowledge and skills in the field of informatics and statistics, with particular attention to their use for reading, synthetizing, analyzing and interpreting complex phenomena. Therefore, the basic concepts of descriptive statistics will be introduced, such as the different ways of organization and representation of the data, the measures of central tendency and the associated indices of dispersion, the study of the relation between two statistical variables.
With the aim of developing statistical and computational thinking, the theoretical notions will be transferred into the application field through the use of up-to-date computer tools.
The transversal aim of the course is to provide digital, communicative, relational, decision-making and problem-solving skills useful for addressing the academic career and the world of work.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
· use the main tools for information collection and use public sources to derive secondary data;
· represent phenomena related to daily experience, both graphically and through appropriate synthesis values, and interpret them also through the exploration of dependency relationships between variables;
· use software and write scripts useful for management, processing, automation, archiving, data representation;
· design and produce multimedia contents with independent judgement to offer third-party users knowledge on key issues of agricultural and environmental sciences;
· adopt an ethical approach to the use of communication and information technologies;
· make a critical use of participative web tools