Keeping Up with the Quants, Tom Davenport
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Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

Author: Tom Davenport, Jinho Kim

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HighBridge

Published: 05/14/2014


Synopsis

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 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 be your “quantitative literacy” guide—helping you develop the analytical skills needed right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value.

Author Bio

Thomas H. Davenport is a Distinguished Professor at Babson College, a visiting professor at Oxford's Said Business School, a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser to Deloitte's Analytics practice. He's written, coauthored, or edited twenty-one books and more than 300 print and digital articles for Harvard Business Review.

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