Descriptive analysis tells us what happened or what is happening. To do this, it uses techniques like calculating summary statistics or drawing visualizations of data.

“The workshop will cover descriptive data analysis. This will include the analysis of single variables (data item e.g., age, sex) as well as the analysis of multiple variables simultaneously.

Shufang Wang, MS, is a Data Analyst with the Urban Health Collaborative. She focuses on the MESA Neighborhood Study and MESA liver projects. She works on data cleaning, descriptive data analysis, data ...