Data Analysis A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition


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What are some real time data analysis frameworks? How are the current generation of managers and auditors placed to interpret the result of Big Data analysis? Does a test systematically cover all parts of the construct? What resources are needed for data analysis, management, recordkeeping, and organization communication? What data analysis software will you use? This premium Data analysis self-assessment will make you the credible Data analysis domain auditor by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Data analysis challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Data analysis work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Data analysis task and that every Data analysis outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Data analysis costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Data analysis advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Data analysis essentials are covered, from every angle: the Data analysis self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Data analysis outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Data analysis practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Data analysis are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Data analysis self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Data analysis Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.




Python for Data Analysis


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Get complete instructions for manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching datasets in Python. Updated for Python 3.6, the second edition of this hands-on guide is packed with practical case studies that show you how to solve a broad set of data analysis problems effectively. You’ll learn the latest versions of pandas, NumPy, IPython, and Jupyter in the process. Written by Wes McKinney, the creator of the Python pandas project, this book is a practical, modern introduction to data science tools in Python. It’s ideal for analysts new to Python and for Python programmers new to data science and scientific computing. Data files and related material are available on GitHub. Use the IPython shell and Jupyter notebook for exploratory computing Learn basic and advanced features in NumPy (Numerical Python) Get started with data analysis tools in the pandas library Use flexible tools to load, clean, transform, merge, and reshape data Create informative visualizations with matplotlib Apply the pandas groupby facility to slice, dice, and summarize datasets Analyze and manipulate regular and irregular time series data Learn how to solve real-world data analysis problems with thorough, detailed examples




Exploratory Data Analysis a Complete Guide - 2019 Edition


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How will you minimise dirty data? Do you have explanations for patterns that you see? How can you use your data to convince your audience? Is it possible to speed up the algorithm significantly in all situations? When is it considered completed? This breakthrough exploratory data analysis self-assessment will make you the reliable exploratory data analysis domain standout by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any exploratory data analysis challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the exploratory data analysis work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every exploratory data analysis task and that every exploratory data analysis outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring exploratory data analysis costs are low? How can I deliver tailored exploratory data analysis advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all exploratory data analysis essentials are covered, from every angle: the exploratory data analysis self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that exploratory data analysis outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced exploratory data analysis practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in exploratory data analysis are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the exploratory data analysis self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific exploratory data analysis Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.




Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI


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Explore, create, and manage highly interactive data visualizations using Microsoft Power BI Extract meaningful business insights from your disparate enterprise data using the detailed information contained in this practical guide. Written by a recognized BI expert and bestselling author, Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI teaches you the skills you need to interact with, author, and maintain robust visualizations and custom data models. Hands-on exercises based on real-life business scenarios clearly demonstrate each technique. Publishing your results to the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com) and Power BI Report Server are also fully covered. Inside, you will discover how to: •Understand Business Intelligence and self-service analytics •Explore the tools and features of Microsoft Power BI •Create and format effective data visualizations •Incorporate advanced interactivity and custom graphics •Build and populate accurate data models •Transform data using the Power BI Query Editor •Work with measures, calculated columns, and tabular models •Write powerful DAX language scripts •Share content on the PowerBI Service (PowerBI.com) •Store your visualizations on the Power BI Report Server




A Step-by-Step Guide to Qualitative Data Coding


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A Step-by-Step Guide to Qualitative Data Coding is a comprehensive qualitative data analysis guide. It is designed to help readers to systematically analyze qualitative data in a transparent and consistent manner, thus promoting the credibility of their findings. The book examines the art of coding data, categorizing codes, and synthesizing categories and themes. Using real data for demonstrations, it provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations for analyzing qualitative data. Some of the demonstrations include conducting manual coding using Microsoft Word and how to use qualitative data analysis software such as Dedoose, NVivo and QDA Miner Lite to analyze data. It also contains creative ways of presenting qualitative findings and provides practical examples. After reading this book, readers will be able to: Analyze qualitative data and present their findings Select an appropriate qualitative analysis tool Decide on the right qualitative coding and categorization strategies for their analysis Develop relationships among categories/themes Choose a suitable format for the presentation of the findings It is a great resource for qualitative research instructors and undergraduate and graduate students who want to gain skills in analyzing qualitative data or who plan to conduct a qualitative study. It is also useful for researchers and practitioners in the social and health sciences fields.




Data Analytics Maturity A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition


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Act/Adjust: what do you need to do differently? What do you do in data analysis and data mining? How are advances in digital technology changing the way you work, your industry and your community? When is it considered completed? Will it protect the assured, proper, and consistent collection, processing, communication, use and disposition of personally identifiable information in the relation to cloud services? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data Analytics Maturity investments work better. This Data Analytics Maturity All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Data Analytics Maturity Self-Assessment. Featuring 983 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data Analytics Maturity improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Data Analytics Maturity projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Data Analytics Maturity and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Data Analytics Maturity Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Data Analytics Maturity areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Data Analytics Maturity self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Data Analytics Maturity Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.




Introduction to Data Science


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Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R introduces concepts and skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges. It covers concepts from probability, statistical inference, linear regression, and machine learning. It also helps you develop skills such as R programming, data wrangling, data visualization, predictive algorithm building, file organization with UNIX/Linux shell, version control with Git and GitHub, and reproducible document preparation. This book is a textbook for a first course in data science. No previous knowledge of R is necessary, although some experience with programming may be helpful. The book is divided into six parts: R, data visualization, statistics with R, data wrangling, machine learning, and productivity tools. Each part has several chapters meant to be presented as one lecture. The author uses motivating case studies that realistically mimic a data scientist’s experience. He starts by asking specific questions and answers these through data analysis so concepts are learned as a means to answering the questions. Examples of the case studies included are: US murder rates by state, self-reported student heights, trends in world health and economics, the impact of vaccines on infectious disease rates, the financial crisis of 2007-2008, election forecasting, building a baseball team, image processing of hand-written digits, and movie recommendation systems. The statistical concepts used to answer the case study questions are only briefly introduced, so complementing with a probability and statistics textbook is highly recommended for in-depth understanding of these concepts. If you read and understand the chapters and complete the exercises, you will be prepared to learn the more advanced concepts and skills needed to become an expert.




Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo


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`In plain language but with very thorough detail, this book guides the researcher who really wants to use the NVivo software (and use it now) into their project. The way is lit with real-project examples, adorned with tricks and tips, but it’s a clear path to a project' - Lyn Richards, Founder and Non-Executive Director, QSR International Doing Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo is essential reading for anyone thinking of using their computer to help analyze qualitative data. With 15 years experience in computer-assisted analysis of qualitative and mixed-mode data, Patricia Bazeley is one of the leaders in the use and teaching of NVivo software. Through this very practical book, readers are guided on how best to make use of the powerful and flexible tools offered by the latest version of NVivo as they work through each stage of their research projects. Explanations draw on examples from her own and others' projects, and are supported by the methodological literature. Researchers have different requirements and come to their data from different perspectives. This book shows how NVivo software can accommodate and assist analysis across those different perspectives and methodological approaches. It is required reading for both students and experienced researchers alike.




A Practitioner's Guide to Business Analytics (PB)


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Gain the competitive edge with the smart use of business analytics In today’s volatile business environment, the strategic use of business analytics is more important than ever. A Practitioners Guide to Business Analytics helps you get the organizational commitment you need to get business analytics up and running in your company. It provides solutions for meeting the strategic challenges of applying analytics, such as: Integrating analytics into decision making, corporate culture, and business strategy Leading and organizing analytics within the corporation Applying statistical qualifications, statistical diagnostics, and statistical review Providing effective building blocks to support analytics—statistical software, data collection, and data management Randy Bartlett, Ph.D., is Chief Statistical Officer of the consulting company Blue Sigma Analytics. He currently works with Infosys, where he has helped build their new Business Analytics practice.




Data Analytics A Complete Guide - 2019 Edition


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What does data analytics look like in other industries today? How likely is it that a particular approach will enable the solution to achieve your performance objectives for all workloads, current and anticipated, as requirements evolve? What % of reported events create incorrect outage predictions (due to data quality, timing or other issues)? What role does Industrial Data Analytics play in your organization? What kinds of work has been done on data analytics so far? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data analytics investments work better. This Data analytics All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Data analytics Self-Assessment. Featuring 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data analytics improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Data analytics projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Data analytics and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Data analytics Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Data analytics areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Data analytics self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Data analytics Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.