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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Written by Tom Davenport and Jinho Kim
Narrated by Alan Sklar
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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 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 be your #8220;quantitative literacy#8221; guide-helping you develop the analytical skills needed right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value.
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Reviews for Keeping Up with the Quants
Rating: 4.400000018181818 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good book, nice real cases and a handy framework to implement in your projects
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Will give a quick insight into analytics landscape and how the same could be applied , this book could be improved further with more case studies from practitioner lens rather than from employee perspective
Overall liked it - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book for beginners in the Quant world. Must try!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great resource for those new to stats or need a refresher.