Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage (Business Books)

Highly recommended!" Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence. How to make simple sense of complex statistics--from the author of Numbers Rule Your WorldWe live in a world of Big Data--and it's getting bigger every day. Buy. It. You’ll be smarter, and you won’t even realize it. The remedy isn’t an advanced degree, nor is it common sense. Davenport, coauthor of Competing on Analytics and President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson College"Kaiser’s accessible business book will blow your mind like no other. Which airline should you choose to ensure a timely arrival? Big Data. Kaiser Fung ably demonstrates that it takes skill and resourcefulness to make the numbers confess their meaning."John Sall, Executive Vice President, SAS Institute"Kaiser Fung breaks the bad newsa ton more data is no panaceabut then has got your back, revealing the pitfalls of analysis with stimulating stories from the front lines of business, politics, health care, government, and educati

He is the creator of the popular Junk Charts blog and the author of the acclaimed Numbers Rule Your World.. He is an adjunct professor at New York University teaching practical statistics. KAISER FUNG is a professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical methods to marketing and advertising businesses

He is the creator of the popular Junk Charts blog and the author of the acclaimed Numbers Rule Your World.. He is an adjunct professor at New York University teaching practical statistics. About the AuthorKAISER FUNG is a professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical methods to marketing and advertising businesses

Required reading for those engaged in Data Analysis. Eminently readable and practical. Great examples. David Alan Tussey Excellent book to provide practical statistics to the (exaggerated) world of big data. Kaiser Fung has a great way of providing real-world examples that clearly illustrate the statistical or data science principle he is articulating. I've read the book twice. I think it was even more impactful to me and my job as software product manger the. "It's not what you know" according to Chris Paige. A wise man once said, "It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that just ain't true," and this book reminds us of that very important principle. As we rely more and more on "numbers" and "data" to make decisions and as we turn more and more of our private data over to the government and non-government data b. "A decent book with a central theme" according to Chandler Nguyen. This is a decent book on the subject, the author tried to use real life examples to explain different statistics concepts.I think it is suitable statisticians or analytics team members who dont know how to express the business impact of their output easily. It is quite a long book for a central theme though and I think I understand the key