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Keeping Up with the Quants

By Davenport, Thomas H

Keeping Up with the Quants Law

Keeping Up with the Quants

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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 Quants" will give you the skills you need to master this new challenge--and gain a significant competitive edge.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2013-06-11
Publication Date:
2013-06-11
Publisher:
Harvard Business Review Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
142218725X
ISBN13:
9781422187258
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
457 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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