Descriptive statistics is what most people think of when they hear the word statistics.

It consists of
methods for organizing, displaying, and describing data by using tables, graphs, and summary measures.
The objective is to summarize some of the important features of a set of data.
Inferential statistics consists of methods that use sample results to help make decisions or predictions
about a population. It is concerned with the formulation of conclusions or generalizations about a
population based on an observation or a series of observations of a sample drawn from the population.