Description: Keeping Up with the QuantsYour Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Author(s): Thomas H. Davenport, Jinho Kim Format: Hardback Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, United States Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press ISBN-13: 9781422187258, 978-1422187258 Synopsis 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" guide--helping 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 challenge--and gain a significant competitive edge.
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Book Title: Keeping Up with the Quants
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Management, Business
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 439 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Thomas H. Davenport, Jinho Kim
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
