Keeping Up with the Quants

Welcome to the era of data. From sports to movies to politics, data is now an integral part of our lives regardless of our interests. Whether you work in finance, marketing, technology, or a small startup, the amount of data surrounding you is overwhelming. As a successful manager, it is crucial to possess analytical skills to make sense of this information. This book, Keeping Up with the Quants, written by authors, professors, and analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jinho Kim, will be your guide to developing the necessary quantitative literacy and analytical skills to digest, interpret, and extract value from all this data. You will learn how to formulate hypotheses, gather and analyze data, interpret and communicate results, cultivate quantitative thinking habits, and effectively collaborate with those well-versed in analytics. Big data and the analytics it produces are expected to revolutionize every industry and business function in the next decade. This book is ideal for those without a business degree or those who lack comfort with statistics and quantitative methods