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 never thought i'd say this, but excel and statistics are fun

one more week to go until the end of finals week 
 They very much are!

I'm very jealous of anyone learning them with chatbots around. That would have made it even funner.  
 oh absolutely, it helps me leaps and bounds over the confusing parts. the ability to ask fornfurther explanations and even explain it like i was five at points definitely speeds up the process of learning 
 It might make a huge difference

> We are now within touching distance of giving every [student] their own personal Aristotle.

https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7 
 I know what you mean tanel. Started the subject data analysis with serious trepidation. But I had so much fun with it. Learned about descriptive statistics, z-scores, hypothesis testing, correlations, and regressions. My favourite topic covered was Quadratic functions - love that all non-linear residuals and outliers are factored into a regression and not just considered errors and left out.
Just sat my final for data analysis :) 
 Ohh, that sounds incredibly nice and I really hope that your final went well. By the way, these are the exact topics that I've covered in my class throughout the past semester and will be having my final on tomorrow 🤗 
 good luck with the final tanel. Lesson I learned from my exam - do not spend too much time on multiple choice and small descriptive questions, get to the long form questions as they take time. 
 thank you so much sophia 💜

ours is going to be fully in excel, so not much theory, but a lot of practice instead through the tasks given to us 🤗 
 Cool. Maybe have your excel cell formulas ready to go where possible too i.e. confidence intervals (90%,95%,99%), significance levels, t-stat and p-value, helps save time :)