Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data into Profitable Insight
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814449212 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Nice Book" according to Amazon Customer. I am a "Data Scientist" and my review has a slight angle from a "Data Scientist" perspective over the business professionals. Data science eliminates hunch and guess and decisions backed by intuition.Today there is a tremendous demand for everything "Data Science", Companies need "Data scientists", IT resour. LSAndersonVery well written easy to follow process and book LSAnderson40 This is an interesting and practical book for delving into analysis and analytics. Piyanka has put a great process together that is easy to follow and delivers results. We liked the book so much, that we invited Piyanka to speak at an offsite executive meeting, where her message stirred lots of great discuss. 0 said Very well written easy to follow process and book. This is an interesting and practical book for delving into analysis and analytics. Piyanka has put a great process together that is easy to follow and delivers results. We liked the book so much, that we invited Piyanka to speak at an offsite executive meeting, where her message stirred lots of great discuss. A perfect book from novice to experts to executives who want to understand business analytics! Dilip G. Saraf As a career coach I often come across clients, who want to get into analytics. With the emergence of Big Data Business Analytics has now become a hot field where plenty of jobs are opening and more will open faster and faster. I was curious about this area, so I purchased the Kindle edition. The book is very
Nothing could be further from the truth. And who doesn't want to do that?. Business analytics isn't rocket science--it's a simple problem-solving tool that can help companies increase revenue, decrease costs, improve products, and delight customers. Readers will learn how to: Clarify the business question - Lay out a hypothesis-driven plan - Pull relevant data - Convert it to insights - Make decisions that make an impact Packed with examples and exercises, this refreshingly accessible book explains the four fundamental analytic techniques that can help solve a surprising 80% of all business problems. In Behind Every Good Decision, authors and analytics experts Piyanka Jain and Puneet Sharma demonstrate how professionals at any level can take the information at their disposal and leverage it to make better decisions. The authors' streamlined frame work demystifies the process of business analytics and helps anyone move from data to decisions in just five stepsusing only Excel as a tool. There is a costly misconception in business today--that the only data that matters is BIG data, and that complex tools and data scientists are required to extract any practical information
“Jain and Sharma do a fantastic job of explaining how any reasonably intelligent person can make sense of data by starting with the problems they want to solve…” -- MindTools “Jain and Sharma demystify big data by revealing how to use it as a highly effective business tool”-- Baseline “…takes a dauntingly huge subject - analytics - and reduces it to clear, usable chunks.” --Blue Heron Journal “…should be on the desk and in the hands of planners and decision-makers in organizations where good decisions matter. That’s everybody.” --Vancouver Business Journal “Experienced data scientists Piyanka Jain and Puneet Sharma offer an exceptionally clear, illustrated guide to data ana