Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities - Softcover

Murray, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119705657 ISBN 13: 9781119705659

Publisher: Wiley, 2020

Synopsis

Learn to build an analytics community in your organization from scratch

How to Build a Data Community shows readers how to create analytics and data communities within their organizations. Celebrated author Eva Murray relies on intuitive and practical advice structured as step-by-step guidance to demonstrate the creation of new data communities.

How to Build a Data Community uses concrete insights gleaned from real-world case studies to describe, in full detail, all the critical components of a data community. Readers will discover:

• What analytics communities are and what they look like
• Why data-driven organizations need analytics communities
• How selected businesses and nonprofits have applied these concepts successfully and what their journey to a data-driven culture looked like.
• How they can establish their own communities and what they can do to ensure their community grows and flourishes

Perfect for analytics professionals who are responsible for making policy-level decisions about data in their firms, the book is also a must-have for data practitioners and consultants who wish to make positive changes in the organizations with which they work.

About this title

About the Author

EVA MURRAY is a Technology Evangelist and passionate about helping people collaborate around data. She has built a global community of passionate data enthusiasts and is helping organizations worldwide do the same.

From the Back Cover

Learn to create a data analytics community within your own organization with this one-stop resource

Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities provides readers with a step-by-step roadmap to establishing a data analytics community from inside your own organization. Beginning with why it’s important and what it can accomplish, experienced community leader and author Eva Murray shows you how to build your data community and tailor it to your unique firm and environment.

The author provides examples and case studies of how both large and small organizations have successfully applied her lessons to create thriving data communities. She offers practical advice and concrete steps and activities to build data analytics capabilities in an organization from scratch.

Rather than focus on the technical details behind data analytics, Empowered by Data describes what makes certain data communities great for analysts and how others miss the mark and create suboptimal environments in which to operate.

Perfect for analytics professionals who are responsible for strategy, culture, or operations within their organizations, Empowered by Data is also an invaluable resource for analysts and consultants seeking a greater understanding of how data communities are born and how they grow.

From the Inside Flap

Learn to create a data analytics community within your own organization with this one-stop resource

Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities provides readers with a step-by-step roadmap to establishing a data analytics community from inside your own organization. Beginning with why it's important and what it can accomplish, experienced community leader and author Eva Murray shows you how to build your data community and tailor it to your unique firm and environment.

The author provides examples and case studies of how both large and small organizations have successfully applied her lessons to create thriving data communities. She offers practical advice and concrete steps and activities to build data analytics capabilities in an organization from scratch.

Rather than focus on the technical details behind data analytics, Empowered by Data describes what makes certain data communities great for analysts and how others miss the mark and create suboptimal environments in which to operate.

Perfect for analytics professionals who are responsible for strategy, culture, or operations within their organizations, Empowered by Data is also an invaluable resource for analysts and consultants seeking a greater understanding of how data communities are born and how they grow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119705657
• ISBN 13: 9781119705659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192