September 2014
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
5h 2m
English
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Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast!
by Clifford Siegel, Donald Farmer, Keith B. Carter
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Chapter 1 Vision of Actionable Intelligence
Key Points and Questions
- For intelligence to have value it must deliver answers in time to make a difference to business outcomes.
- The availability of big data is not an immediate way to improve your business.
- Before jumping to statistical packages and hiring data scientists, make sure business leaders have visibility into the intelligence you already have in hand.
- Statistical models that are missing large sets of data and don't include influencing data never predict the future; they can be used only to neatly outline past mistakes.
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