Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

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ISBN-10:

142218725X

ISBN-13:

9781422187258

Released: Jun 11, 2013
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages

Description:

Why Everyone Needs Analytical Skills

Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)your world is awash with data.

As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative information. This book promises to become your quantitative literacy" guidehelping you develop the analytical skills you need right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value.

In Keeping Up with the Quants, authors, professors, and analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jinho Kim offer practical tools to improve your understanding of data analytics and enhance your thinking and decision making. You’ll gain crucial skills, including:

How to formulate a hypothesis
How to gather and analyze relevant data
How to interpret and communicate analytical results
How to develop habits of quantitative thinking
How to deal effectively with the quants” in your organization

Big data and the analytics based on it promise to change virtually every industry and business function over the next decade. If you don’t have a business degree or if you aren’t comfortable with statistics and quantitative methods, this book is for you. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the skills you need to master this new challengeand gain a significant competitive edge.

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