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Analytics stories : using data to make good things happen /
Inform your own analyses by seeing how one of the best data analysts in the world approaches analytics problems Analytics Stories: How to Make Good Things Happen is a thoughtful, incisive, and entertaining exploration of the application of analytics to real-world problems and situations. Covering fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis, IN :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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- Part I. What Happened? Preliminaries
- Was the 1969 Draft Lottery Fair?
- Who Won the 2000 Election: Bush or Gore?
- Was Liverpool Over Barcelona the Greatest Upset in Sports History?
- How Did Bernie Madoff Keep His Fund Going?
- Is the Lot of the American Worker Improving?
- Measuring Income Inequality with the Gini, Palm, and Atkinson Indices
- Modeling Relationships Between Two Variables
- Intergenerational Mobility
- Is Anderson Elementary School a Bad School?
- Value-Added Assessments of Teacher Effectiveness
- Berkeley, Buses, Cars, and Planes
- Is Carmelo Anthony a Hall of Famer?
- Was Derek Jeter a great fielder?
- "Drive for show and putt for dough?"
- What's wrong with the NFL QB rating?
- Some sports have all the luck
- Gerrymandering
- Evidence-based medicine
- How do we compare hospitals?
- What is the worst health care problem in my country?
- What will happen?
- Does a mutual fund's past performance predict future performance?
- Is Vegas good a picking NFL games?
- Will my new hires be good employees?
- Should I go to State U or Princeton?
- Will my favorite sports team be great next year?
- How did central bankers fail to predict the 2008 recession?
- How does Target know if you're pregnant?
- How does Netflix recommend movies and TV shows?
- Can we predict heart attacks in real time?
- Is proactive policing effective?
- Guess how many are coming to dinner?
- Can prediction markets predict the future?
- The ABCs of polling
- How did Buzzfeed make the dress go viral?
- Predicting Game of Thrones TV ratings
- Why did it happened? Does smoking cause lung cancer?
- Why are the Houston rockets a good basketball team?
- Why have sacrifice bunts and intentional walks nearly disappeared?
- Do NFL teams pass too much and go for it often enough on fourth down
- What caused the 1854 London cholera outbreak?
- What affects the sales of a retail product?
- Why does the Pareto Principle explain so many things?
- Does where you grow up matter?
- The waiting is the hardest part
- Are roundabouts a good idea?
- Red light, green light, or no light?
- How do I make good things happen? How can we improve K-12 education?
- Can A/B testing improve my website's performance?
- How should I allocate my retirement portfolio?
- How do hedge funds work?
- How much should we order and when should we order?
- How does the UPS driver know the order to deliver packages?
- Can data win a Presidential election?
- Can analytics recognize, predict, or write a hit song?
- Can an algorithm improve parole decisions?
- How do baseball teams decide where to shift fielders?
- Did analytics help the Mavericks win the 2011 NBA title?
- Who gets the house in the Hampton's?