Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 142218725X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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You can learn how to find treasure in your data from this book.”Tim Phillipps, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Global Leader, Deloitte AnalyticsAnalytics is not just a fadit’s the future. Loveman, Chairman and CEO, Caesars Entertainment, Inc.Keeping Up with the Quants provides a compelling and accessible road map for managers to understand the process by which analytic questions are framed, examined, and turned into powerful business insights.”. Gary W. There is no better guide to this new landscape than Keeping Up with the Quants.”Daryl Morey, General Manager, Houston RocketsTom D
Why Everyone Needs Analytical SkillsWelcome to the age of data. 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 organizationBig 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. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative information. 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. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the skills you need to master this new challengeand gain a significant competitive edge.. 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 analyti
Rednax85 said Basic, non-technical. I had a little trouble understanding who the authors had in mind as the audience for this book. It seemed to basic for any professional who would have to deal with statistics/data or would have to manage/collaborate with someone who does.There are some helpful reminders throughout about how to approach problems and how to communicate your ideas. Bu. I loved the style of the authors regarding the basic concepts I loved the style of the authors regarding the basic concepts BUT the examples and stories they tried to relate to oh my, they were not good. I've had some experience with numbers in my work and this book was for my MBA program. Therefore, I'm not a novice but the book made a point about relating stories to numbers and how effective it is (I agree,. This book is a nice introduction to Quants for people who are afraid of As a management professor I keep reading all sorts of books. This book is a nice introduction to Quants for people who are afraid of numbers and data. It is written in simple language and analytic concepts are explained well for non-data people. A good introductory book if you are looking to acquaint yourself with the analytics world!