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6) Prescriptive analytics: the final frontier for evidence-based management and optimal decision making
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Prescriptive analytics is more directly linked to successful decision-making than any other form of business analytics. It can help you systematically sort through your choices to optimise decisions, respond to new opportunities and risks with precision, and continually reflect new information into your decisioning process. In Prescriptive Analytics, analytics expert Dr. Dursun Delen illuminates the field's state-of-the-art methods, offering holistic...
Author
Publisher
SAS Institute
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex...
Author
Publisher
Ideapress Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What if you sliced data and found a huge problem or opportunity? Data did its job, but now it needs a storyteller. The way insights are communicated could reverse or increase the trajectory of data. The actions you ask others to take today can change your future data. But getting others to move forward with those actions only happens when someone communicates well. Learn effective ways to turn your data into narratives that blend the power of language,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data...
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Don't let a fear of numbers hold you back. Today's business environment brings with it an onslaught of data, but leaving the analysis to others in your company just won't cut it. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to understand where it comes from, make sense of the numbers, and use those findings to inform their toughest decisions. But how do you get started? Whether you're working with data experts or running...
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examine and solve the common misconceptions and fallacies that non-statisticians bring to their interpretation of statistical results. Explore the many pitfalls that non-statisticians--and also statisticians who present statistical reports to non-statisticians--must avoid if statistical results are to be correctly used for evidence-based business decision making. Victoria Cox, senior statistician at the United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible, magically bringing machines to life-driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI brings can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In the face of such uncertainty, many either cower in fear or predict an impossibly sunny future. But in Prediction...
14) Reinforcement learning and stochastic optimization: a unified framework for sequential decisions
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The first step in sequential decision problems is to understand what decisions are being made. It is surprising how often it is that people faced with complex problems, which spans scientists in a lab to people trying to solve major health problems, are not able to identify the decisions they face. We then want to find a method for making decisions. There are at least 45 words in the English language that are equivalent to "method for making a decision,"...
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