Book Review

Predictive Analytics – Book Review

I read Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die by Eric Siegel thinking it was an introduction to the mechanics of creating and choosing the best predictive models, it is not. This book is an introduction to why to …

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Signal Book Review

Signal is the latest book by Stephen Few covering data visualisation. Like all of the Few books I have read the focus is once again on leveraging the preattentive visual processing and inherent the ability of people to compare lengths, positions, hue and saturation to …

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New Year Resolutions and Goals

So the New Year has started and it’s time for the obligatory goals post. There is a couple of reasons I want to put this post out. So get my ideas and plans on paper so I know what I’m thinking about. Try to force …

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From Zero To Visual.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (2013)Main Topic: Tableau IntroductionRating: 4 StarsISBN: 978-1-118-61204-0Tableau Your Data! by Daniel Murray (from Amazon.co.uk) is a comprehensive introduction to Tableau for users at all skill levels. Covering the business case for visual analytics and identifying some of the shortcomings in …

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