Descriptive statistics (describe) in SciPy - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Descriptive statistics (describe)

📖 Scenario: You work as a data analyst for a small online store. You have collected daily sales data for a week. You want to understand the basic statistics of these sales numbers to see how the store is performing.

🎯 Goal: Build a small program that uses the scipy.stats.describe function to get descriptive statistics of daily sales data.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list called daily_sales with exact sales numbers for 7 days

Import the describe function from scipy.stats

Use describe on the daily_sales list to get statistics

Print the result of the describe function

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Descriptive statistics help businesses quickly understand their data, like sales trends or customer behavior.

💼 Career

Data analysts and scientists use descriptive statistics as the first step to explore and summarize data before deeper analysis.

1

Create the daily sales data list

Create a list called daily_sales with these exact values: 150, 200, 170, 220, 180, 210, 190.

SciPy

# Create the daily_sales list with the exact values
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets [] to create a list and separate numbers with commas.

2

Import the describe function

Import the describe function from the scipy.stats module.

SciPy

daily_sales = [150, 200, 170, 220, 180, 210, 190]
# Import describe from scipy.stats
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the from ... import ... syntax to import only the describe function.

3

Get descriptive statistics

Use the describe function on the daily_sales list and save the result in a variable called stats.

SciPy

daily_sales = [150, 200, 170, 220, 180, 210, 190]
from scipy.stats import describe
# Use describe on daily_sales and save to stats
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Call describe with daily_sales inside the parentheses and assign it to stats.

4

Print the descriptive statistics

Print the variable stats to display the descriptive statistics.

SciPy

daily_sales = [150, 200, 170, 220, 180, 210, 190]
from scipy.stats import describe
stats = describe(daily_sales)
# Print the stats variable
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use print(stats) to show the statistics on the screen.