If your job requires you to manage and analyze all kinds of data, turn to Head First Data Analysis, where you'll quickly learn how to collect and organize data, sort the distractions from the truth, find meaningful patterns, draw conclusions, predict the future, and present your findings to others. All the examples in the books are well explained. Are your tables all tangled up? Lynn Beighley is the author of this book. Is your data dragging you down?. Well we've got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases into submission. There is no previous programming knowledge is required to understand this book. All the examples in the books are well explained.
She is also a key member of the development team for the Sun Certified programmer exam and has developed dozens of applications to demonstrate Java technology. But now you want more, you want to really dig into those databases and work with your data. There are tons of exercises and examples, which help you to not only, understand the language concepts being taught, but you get a good sense of good and bad database design at the same time. Whether you're a product developer researching the market viability of a new product or service, a marketing manager gauging or predicting the effectiveness of a campaign, a salesperson who needs data to support product presentations, or a lone entrepreneur responsible for all of these data-intensive functions and more, the unique approach in Head First Data Analysis is by far the most efficient way to learn what you need to know to convert raw data into a vital business tool. Lynn Beighley is the author of this book. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, and expect to be querying, normalizing, and joining your data like a pro by the time you're finished reading! She is the founder of one of the largest java community websites in the world, javaranch.
You'll learn how to: --Determine which data sources to use for collecting information --Assess data quality and distinguish signal from noise --Build basic data models to illuminate patterns, and assimilate new information into the models --Cope with ambiguous information --Design experiments to test hypotheses and draw conclusions --Use segmentation to organize your data within discrete market groups --Visualize data distributions to reveal new relationships and persuade others --Predict the future with sampling and probability models --Clean your data to make it useful --Communicate the results of your analysis to your audience Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Data Analysis uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. There are tons of exercises and examples, which help you to not only, understand the language concepts being taught, but you get a good sense of good and bad database design at the same time. Kathy Sierra has been a master Java trainer for Sun Microsystems, teaching Sun's instructors how to teach the latest Java technologies. There is no previous programming knowledge is required to understand this book. . . .
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