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

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Navigate data confidently: your analytical literacy guide.

Imagine turning what looks like a messy jumble of numbers into clear decisions that drive your business forward. "Keeping Up with the Quants" is more than just a guide; it's like a compass in the digital age for anyone feeling lost in the sea of data. Whether you're a newcomer to analytics or looking to sharpen your skills, it offers practical insights that demystify the process of data interpretation and ensures you won't feel left behind in the fast-paced world where data reigns supreme.

  • CMI Management Book of the Year Awards Nominee for The New Manager (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

Regular price RM81.71 MYR
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Compare to estimated retail price: RM147.52 MYR  
ISBN: 9781422187258
Date of Publication: 2013-06-11
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 574 readers)

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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
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Imagine turning what looks like a messy jumble of numbers into clear decisions that drive your business forward. "Keeping Up with the Quants" is more than just a guide; it's like a compass in the digital age for anyone feeling lost in the sea of data. Whether you're a newcomer to analytics or looking to sharpen your skills, it offers practical insights that demystify the process of data interpretation and ensures you won't feel left behind in the fast-paced world where data reigns supreme.

  • CMI Management Book of the Year Awards Nominee for The New Manager (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.