Guerrilla analytics : techniques for managing data and analytics teams /
Project data itself arrives piecemeal, is added to, replaced, contains undiscovered flaws and comes from a variety of sources. Despite these disruptions, a data science team must get off the ground fast and begin demonstrating value with traceable, tested work products. This book covers: guerrilla a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2015]
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| Series: | Savvy manager's guides.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Project data itself arrives piecemeal, is added to, replaced, contains undiscovered flaws and comes from a variety of sources. Despite these disruptions, a data science team must get off the ground fast and begin demonstrating value with traceable, tested work products. This book covers: guerrilla analytics principles: simple rules of thumb for maintaining data provenance across the entire analytics life cycle from data extraction, through analysis to reporting; reproducible, traceable analytics; practice tips and war stories based on real-world project challenges encountered in consulting, pre-sales and research; preparing for battle: how to set up a team's analytics environment in terms of tooling, skill sets, workflows and conventions; data gymnastics: over a dozen analytics patterns that a team will encounter again and again in projects. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780128005033 0128005033 9781322158488 1322158487 0128002182 9780128002186 |