Category: Business Intelligence

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizen’s Survival Guide (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author(s): Hurst L
First published:2020 Published: Chichester Publisher: Wiley
ISBN:978-1119616085

Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily.

No previous experience is required to get started right away—all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to:

  • Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources
  • Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work
  • Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API’s
  • Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google’s recently released Data Set Search
  • Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.

Google Data Studio for Beginners: Start Making Your Data Actionable (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author(s): Kemp G and White G
First published:12020 Published: New York Publisher: Apress
ISBN:978-1484251553

Google Data Studio is becoming a go-to tool in the analytics community. All business roles across the industry benefit from foundational knowledge of this now-essential technology, and Google Data Studio for Beginners is here to provide it. Release your locked-up data and turn it into beautiful, actionable, and shareable reports that can be consumed by experts and novices alike.

Authors Grant Kemp and Gerry White begin by walking you through simple dashboards and interactive visualizations. As you progress through Google Data Studio for Beginners, you gain the knowledge necessary to blend multiple data sources and create comprehensive marketing dashboards. Advanced features such as calculated fields, cleaning up data, and data blending to build powerhouse reports are featured as well. Presenting your data in client-ready, digestible forms is a key factor that many find to be a roadblock, and this book will help strengthen this essential skill in your organization.

Centralizing the power from sources such as Google Analytics, online surveys, and a multitude of other popular data management tools puts you as a business leader and analyzer ahead of the rest. Your team as a whole will benefit from Google Data Studio for Beginners, because by using these tools, teams can collaboratively work on data to build their understanding and turn their data into action. Data Studio is quickly solidifying itself as the industry standard, and you don’t want to miss this essential guide for excelling in it.

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Perez CC. Pages: 432  Format: EPUB Publisher: Vintage;;
5 Mar. 2020
eISBN-13: 978-1784706289

Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman. Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew. ‘HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research’ Caitlin Moran.

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Trevor L. Strome. Pages: 242 Size: 6.58 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 14 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118760178

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization. Renowned healthcare analytics leader Trevor Strome reveals in this groundbreaking volume the true potential of analytics to harness the vast amounts of data being generated in order to improve the decision-making ability of healthcare managers and improvement teams.

Examines how technology has impacted healthcare delivery

Discusses the challenge facing healthcare organizations: to leverage advances in both clinical and information technology to improve quality and performance while containing costs

Explores the tools and techniques to analyze and extract value from healthcare data

Demonstrates how the clinical, business, and technology components of healthcare organizations (HCOs) must work together to leverage analytics
Other industries are already taking advantage of big data. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement helps the healthcare industry make the most of the precious data already at its fingertips for long-overdue quality and performance improvement.

Porter`s Five Forces – Stay ahead of the competition

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 21 Size: 1.55 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 17 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806268389

Stay ahead of the competition. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Porter`s five forces, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:.

  • Understand the five forces that affect profitability and analyze each force in depth in relation to your company .
  • Analyze the intensity of the competition within an industry and how this affects your business.
  • Increase or maintain your competitive advantage according to the analysis

Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jeremy Nelson. Pages: 162 Size: 1.16 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: 07 December, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781780634609

Becoming a Lean Library: Lessons from the World of Technology Start-ups provides a guide to the process and approach necessary to manage product development. Using techniques and philosophies pioneered by Toyota’s lean manufacturing success, Becoming a Lean Library provides library leadership advice and tips on making the library more nimble, lean, and responsive to technological change. Early chapters introduce the reader to the idea of lean start-ups in libraries, followed by chapters covering library systems, lessons from lean manufacturing, and the build-measure-learn model. Remaining chapters discuss technology change and DevOps as a lean strategy, while also giving the reader the opportunity to earn a professional online “badge” on the subject material of the book.

  • Introduces lean startup and lean manufacturing theory and practice
  • Applies Lean Startup Principles to Libraries
  • Allows readers to earn two Openbadges to demonstrate professional education accomplishment through social networking and for compensation purposes

Only book in its market that illustrates lean principles at work

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gerald J. Langley … [et Al.]. Pages: 515 Size: 2.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 13 May, 2009
eISBN-13: 9780470430880

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.

Principles of Health Interoperability

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve. Pages: 465 Size: 9.34 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2016
eISBN-13: 978331930370

This book provides an introduction to health interoperability and the main standards used. Health interoperability delivers health information where and when it is needed. Everybody stands to gain from safer more soundly based decisions and less duplication, delays, waste and errors. The third edition of Principles of Health Interoperability includes a new part on FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources), the most important new health interoperability standard for a generation. FHIR combines the best features of HL7`s v2, v3 and CDA while leveraging the latest web standards and a tight focus on implementability. FHIR can be implemented at a fraction of the price of existing alternatives and is well suited for use in mobile phone apps, cloud communications and EHRs. The book is organised into four parts. The first part covers the principles of health interoperability, why it matters, why it is hard and why models are an important part of the solution. The second part covers clinical terminology and SNOMED CT. The third part covers the main HL7 standards: v2, v3, CDA and IHE XDS. The new fourth part covers FHIR and has been contributed by Grahame Grieve, the original FHIR chief.

The Health Care Data Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lloyd P. Provost, Sandra K. Murray. Pages: 481 Size: 18.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 15 August, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781118086117

Step by step this comprehensive resource explores the statistical process control (SPC), a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement of processes and systems to yield better outcomes in health care organizations. It includes information on processes, stratification, rational subgrouping and stability and capability analysis, measurement, data collection methods, planned experimentation, and graphical methods. This book shows how to apply SPC to evaluate current process performance, search for ideas for improvement, tell if changes have resulted in evidence of improvement, and track implementation efforts to document sustainability of the improvement.

Healthcare and Big Data Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 165 Size: 2.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9789811060410

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management. Thanks to major advances in big data technologies and precision medicine, healthcare is now becoming the new frontier for both scientific research and economic development. This volume covers a range of aspects, including: big data management for healthcare; physiological and gut microbiota – data collection and analysis; big data standardization and ontology; and personal data privacy and systems level modeling in the healthcare context. The book offers a valuable resource for biomedical informaticians, clinicians, health practitioners and researchers alike.

Big Data in Healthcare: Extracting Knowledge From Point-Of-Care Machines

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 104 Size: 2.3 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9783319629902

This book reviews a number of issues including: Why data generated from POC machines are considered as Big Data. What are the challenges in storing, managing, extracting knowledge from data from POC devices? Why is it inefficient to use traditional data analysis with big data? What are the solutions for the mentioned issues and challenges? What type of analytics skills are required in health care? What big data technologies and tools can be used efficiently with data generated from POC devices? This book shows how it is feasible to store vast numbers of anonymous data and ask highly specific questions that can be performed in real-time to give precise and meaningful evidence to guide public health policy.

Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Haskel, Jonathan;westlake, Stian Pages: 316 Size: 2.46 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Princeton University Press – M.U.A
Published: 29 November, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781400888320

Presents three possible scenarios for what the future of an intangible world might be like, and by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.  This book from Nesta’s 8 of the best books on innovation reading list reports how early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and pharma companies to coffee shops and gyms, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. It shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the big economic changes of the last decade. The rise of intangible investment is, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue, an underappreciated cause of phenomena from economic inequality to stagnating productivity.

Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards: A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance

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Author: Harold Kerzner. Pages: 449 Size: 21.57 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 30 August, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119427506

With the growth of complex projects, stakeholder involvement, and advancements in visual–based technology, metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) are key factors in evaluating project performance. Dashboard reporting systems provide accessible project performance data, and sharing this vital data in a concise and consistent manner is a key communication responsibility of all project managers.

This third edition of Kerzner′s groundbreaking work, Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards: A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance, helps functional managers gain a thorough grasp of what metrics and KPIs are and how to use them. Plus, this edition includes new sections on processing dashboard information, portfolio management PMO and metrics, and BI tool flexibility.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the different dashboard types, design issues, and applications.

Statistics & Data Analytics for Health Data Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Davis, Nadinia A.;shiland, Betsy J. Pages: 266 Size: 3.9 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 04 December, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780323292214

New text that emphasizes the easy-to-learn, practical use of statistics and manipulation of data in the health care setting. With its unique hands-on approach and friendly writing style, this vivid text uses real-world examples to show you how to identify the problem, find the right data, generate the statistics, and present the information to other users. Brief Case scenarios ask you to apply information to situations Health Information Management professionals encounter every day, and review questions are tied to learning objectives and Bloom’s taxonomy to reinforce core content. From planning budgets to explaining accounting methodologies, Statistics & Data Analytics addresses the key HIM Associate Degree-Entry Level competencies required by CAHIIM and covered in the RHIT exam.

Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Stephen F. Davis Randolph A. Smith. Pages: 550 Size: 6.68 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 03 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781292052588

For undergraduate Psychology courses in statistics and research methods. A forward-looking text that combines research methods and statistics, this book is valuable for a single course or a two-semester sequence that covers what have traditionally been two separate courses.

Storytelling with Data

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Pages: 284 Size: 2.44 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 09 October, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781119002260

Don`t simply show your data tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You`ll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don`t make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you`ll learn how to:

  • Understand the importance of context and audience
  • Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation
  • Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information
  • Direct your audience`s attention to the most important parts of your data
  • Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization
  • Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience

Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Management Information Systems, 7th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kenneth J. Sousa, Effy Oz. Pages: 562 Size: 282.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 01 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781473714991

Combines a wealth of case studies and real-world examples to provide a clear emphasis on the business and management elements of information technology. The new edition offers the most current coverage available, including expanded discussions of social networking, IT security, mobile computing, and much more. From overviews of the information age to online business and business intelligence, readers gain a sound balance of the technical and business elements of information technology. In addition, numerous business cases integrated throughout the text enable readers to apply what they learn to real-world practice–equipping them with skills they can immediately put into action in the business world.

Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2010

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hogan. Pages: 303 Size: 28.82 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 03 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781292053288

For introductory computer courses on Microsoft Office 2010 or courses in computer concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2010 applications. The goal of the Exploring series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill. The Exploring series for Office 2010 also enables students to extend the learning beyond the classroom. Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did five years ago. With this in mind, the Exploring series seeks to move students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing coverage of the fundamental skills that everybody needs to know. A lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom, and the Exploring series provides learning tools that students can access anytime, anywhere.

Computer Networks and Internets

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Douglas E. Comer. Pages: 668 Size: 5.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 26 February, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781292061825

Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking, the Internet, or Internet applications; students need no background in networking, operating systems, or advanced mathematics. Leading networking authority Douglas Comer presents a wide-ranging, self-contained tour of the concepts, principles, and technologies that enable today’s Internet to support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and multimedia. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and facilities offered by today’s Internet. Next, he systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and protocols that make them possible. With these concepts and technologies established, he introduces several of the most important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and managers, including quality of service, Internet telephony, multimedia, network security, and network management. Comer has carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating systems, and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students.

  • Broad Coverage of Key Concepts and Principles, Presented in a Technology-independent Fashion: Comer focuses on imparting knowledge that students will need regardless of which technologies emerge or become obsolete.
  • Flexible Organization that Supports both Top-down and Bottom-up Teaching Approaches: Chapters may be sequenced to accommodate a wide variety of course needs and preferences.
  • An Accessible Presentation that Resonates with Students: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs.
  • Keep Your Course Current: Content is refreshed to provide the most up-to-date information on new technologies for your course.

Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support, 10th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen, Efraim Turban ; With Contributions By J. E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, David King. Pages: 689 Size: 34.45 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 10 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781292009261

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today’s revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. The 10th edition focuses on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics for enterprise decision support in a more streamlined book.

Beyond Basic Statistics

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kristin H. Jarman Pages: 203 Size: 1.39 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 22 April, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118856093

Features basic statistical concepts as a tool for thinking critically, wading through large quantities of information, and answering practical, everyday questions Written in an engaging and inviting manner, Beyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know presents the more subjective side of statistics the art of data analytics. Each chapter explores a different question using fun, common sense examples that illustrate the concepts, methods, and applications of statistical techniques. Without going into the specifics of theorems, propositions, or formulas, the book effectively demonstrates statistics as a useful problem-solving tool. In addition, the author demonstrates how statistics is a tool for thinking critically, wading through large volumes of information, and answering life s important questions. Beyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know also features:

  • Plentiful examples throughout aimed to strengthen readers understanding of the statistical concepts and methods
  • A step-by-step approach to elementary statistical topics such as sampling, hypothesis tests, outlier detection, normality tests, robust statistics, and multiple regression
  • A case study in each chapter that illustrates the use of the presented techniques
  • Highlights of well-known shortcomings that can lead to false conclusions
  • An introduction to advanced techniques such as validation and bootstrapping

Featuring examples that are engaging and non-application specific, the book appeals to a broad audience of students and professionals alike, specifically students of undergraduate statistics, managers, medical professionals, and anyone who has to make decisions based on raw data or compiled results.

Advanced Data Management: For SQL, NoSQL, cloud and distributed databases

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Author: Lena Wiese. Pages: 392 Size: 8.82 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Walter De Gruyter
Published: 29 October, 2015
eISBN-13: 9783110433074

This graduate text book provides a formal analysis of alternative, non-relational data models and storage mechanisms and gives a decent overview of non-SQL query languages. It describes a perspective beyond SQL and relational database management systems and thus covers the theoretical background of modern data management. It also helps to take informed decisions about what database systems to use.