Field Guide to Compelling Analytics
Walter Degrange
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Add to basketnach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Field Guide to Compelling Analytics is written for Analytics Professionals (APs) who want to increase their probability of success in implementing analytical solutions. In the past, soft skills such as presentation and persuasive writing techniques have been the extent of teaching junior APs how to effectively communicate the value of analytical products. However, there are other aspects to success such as trust and experience that may play a more important role in convincing fellow APs, clients, advisors, and leadership groups that their analytic solutions will work.This book introduces the formula 'Analytics + Trust + Communication + Experience > Convince Them' to illustrate an AP's ability to convince a stakeholder. The 'Convince Me' stakeholders might be an analytics team member, team lead, decision-maker, or senior leader that are either internal or external to the AP's organization. Whoever they are, this formula represents a concise, digestible, and above all practical means to increase the likelihood that you will be able to persuade them of the value of your analytical product.FeaturesIncludes insight questions to support class discussionWritten in broadly non-mathematical terms, designed to be accessible to any level of student or practicing AP to read, understand, and implement the conceptsEach section introduces the ideas through real-life case studies.
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Field Guide to Compelling Analytics is written for Analytics Professionals (APs) who want to increase their probability of success in implementing analytical solutions. In the past, soft skills such as presentation and persuasive writing techniques have been the extent of teaching junior APs how to effectively communicate the value of analytical products. However, there are other aspects to success such as trust and experience that may play a more important role in convincing fellow APs, clients, advisors, and leadership groups that their analytic solutions will work.
This book introduces the formula ‘Analytics + Trust + Communication + Experience > Convince Them’ to illustrate an AP’s ability to convince a stakeholder. The ‘Convince Me’ stakeholders might be an analytics team member, team lead, decision-maker, or senior leader that are either internal or external to the AP’s organization. Whoever they are, this formula represents a concise, digestible, and above all practical means to increase the likelihood that you will be able to persuade them of the value of your analytical product.
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Walt DeGrange is the Director of Analytics Capabilities for CANA. He has extensive experience implementing analytical models in both the Department of Defense and commercial areas. Prior to CANA, Walt served 21 years in the US Navy as a Supply Corps Officer. He was the Director of Operations Research at several military commands as well as a Military Assistant Professor on faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in the Operations Research Department.
Walt is also very active in analytics education. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arkansas with both the Master of Science Operations Management and Engineering Management programs. He is an MBA Executive Advisor at the NC State University Poole School of Management. Walt serves as the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Course Director for the Critical Skills for Analytics Professionals Certificate Program, and he teaches the Analytics Capability Evaluation (ACE) Coaching Course for INFORMS.
Lucia Darrow is a data visualization expert with experience implementing analytical models in a variety of environments, including healthcare, manufacturing, defense, and finance. An industrial engineer by training, Lucia also has extensive experience with Lean manufacturing and the modeling of complex systems. In a professional role as a learning and development lead and as a community events organizer, she has facilitated many successful networking events, tutorials, and classes in a wide range of analytics topics. Lucia is actively involved in the analytics community through RLadies and recently co-organized the first Vancouver, BC Datajam.
She holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Dickinson College. Lucia is currently a Content Marketing Data Analyst with RepRisk AG, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) data science company based in Zurich, Switzerland.
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