So you are in statistics class... the first natural question to ask is:

"What is Statistics?"

Well let's see what Google says:

What our book says:

Statistics is the science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyze, and draw conclusions from data.

So both of these definitions have a very important word in common DATA!

"What is Data?"

Data describes characteristics of an individual/subject.

In the next "slide" (you can hit the arrows on the bottom right (and/or top right depending on device) to move forward or back) we will discuss why we study statistics...