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.
