Guerrilla Analytics: A Practical Approach to Working with Data - Enda Ridge

Guerrilla Analytics: A Practical Approach to Working with Data is a comprehensive manual suitable for both professional mechanics and DIY enthusiasts. This manual provides valuable insights into maintaining data provenance, designing reproducible analytics, and setting up analytics environments. It also includes over a dozen analytics patterns commonly encountered in projects. The book offers 90 practice tips and 16 real-world project challenges, making it an essential resource for anyone involved in data science.

• The 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: how to design and implement work products that are reproducible, testable and stand up to external scrutiny
• Practice tips and war stories: 90 practice tips and 16 war stories based on real-world project challenges encountered in consulting, pre-sales and research
• Preparing for battle: how to set up your team's analytics environment in terms of tooling, skill sets, workflows and conventions
• Data gymnastics: over a dozen analytics patterns that your team will encounter again and again in projects

Author: Ridge, Enda

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Illustration: n

Language: ENG

Pages: 00276 (Encrypted) / 00276 (Encrypted)

On Sale: 2014-09-25

SKU-13/ISBN: 9780128002186

Category: Computers : Database Management - General

Category: Computers : Enterprise Applications - Business Intelligence