March 2018
Beginner
256 pages
3h 56m
English
For 20 years, I’ve used a simple exercise to help those with an open mind (and a pencil, paper, and calculator) get started with data. One activity won’t make you data savvy, but it will help you become data literate, open your eyes to the millions of small data opportunities, and enable you to work a bit more effectively with data scientists, analytics, and all things quantitative.
While the exercise is very much a how-to, each step also illustrates an important concept in analytics—from understanding variation to visualization.
First, start with something that interests, even bothers, you at work, like consistently late-starting meetings. Form it up as a ...