Analytics

Afterword

To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.

—William Zinsser

Thank you for buying Analytics: The Agile Way. I hope that the preceding pages provoked you to think about how you and your current or future organization should approach the practice of analytics. Beyond some level of enjoyment and education (always admirable goals in reading a nonfiction book), I also hope that you can apply your newfound knowledge in the workplace, in the classroom, or in both.

And perhaps you are willing to help me. Each of these actions is very valuable:

• Putting the book on the curriculum of a course that you teach or one of your colleagues teaches.
• Writing a review of the book on Amazon.com, BN.com, Goodreads.com, or your blog. The more honest, the better.
• Mentioning the book on your blog, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites you frequent.
• Recommending the book to anyone who might find it interesting.
• Giving the book as a gift.
• Referring the book to people who still work in newspapers, magazines, television, or industry groups. Social media hasn’t entirely replaced traditional media.
• Checking out my other books at www.philsimon.com/books.

I don’t expect my book to become a bestseller, but stranger things have happened. Case in point: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, an obscure French economist. In 2014, the 700-page tome on income inequality became the very definition of a surprise hit. It proved what the physicist Niels Bohr ...