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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Main Authors: Ridge, Enda (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The savvy manager's guide
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128002186
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. --
Carrier Form: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780128005033
0128005033
9781322158488
1322158487
0128002182
9780128002186
Index Number: QA76
CLC: TP311.13