Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die by Eric Siegel is currently the number 1 book in various categories for a good reason. Eric has done a good job explaining what predictive analytics is and what it can be used for. He provides many case studies from various fields […]
Continue readingTableau Data Visualization Cookbook was published on August 26th and my publisher, Packt Publishing, is offering free copies of the book in exchange for reviews on Amazon or on your blog. With this book, you can: Quickly create impressive and effective graphics which would usually take hours in other tools See lots of illustrations to […]
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Learning skills is hard, and takes a lot of effort to learn them well. I have used these following steps to learn various things such as speaking, data visualization, Excel, writing. It is painful going through this process, but in the end, the joy of knowing a skill easily removes that pain. Here’s your roadmap: Learning to LearnUnderstand why […]
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These instructions read better in this Linear Regression Excel Directions PDF file Linear Regression in Excel Introduction Linear regression is a statistical technique used to observe trends, determine correlation, and predict future observations. The underlying principle of this technique is called the least-squared, which is the process of minimizing the distance between the predicted value […]
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UCLA‘s professor Jason Frand defines data mining as this: “data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information – information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both” To become an expert and actually get a job in […]
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