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Data Analytics Made Easy

By : Andrea De Mauro
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Book Image

Data Analytics Made Easy

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By: Andrea De Mauro

Overview of this book

Data Analytics Made Easy is an accessible beginner’s guide for anyone working with data. The book interweaves four key elements: Data visualizations and storytelling – Tired of people not listening to you and ignoring your results? Don’t worry; chapters 7 and 8 show you how to enhance your presentations and engage with your managers and co-workers. Learn to create focused content with a well-structured story behind it to captivate your audience. Automating your data workflows – Improve your productivity by automating your data analysis. This book introduces you to the open-source platform, KNIME Analytics Platform. You’ll see how to use this no-code and free-to-use software to create a KNIME workflow of your data processes just by clicking and dragging components. Machine learning – Data Analytics Made Easy describes popular machine learning approaches in a simplified and visual way before implementing these machine learning models using KNIME. You’ll not only be able to understand data scientists’ machine learning models; you’ll be able to challenge them and build your own. Creating interactive dashboards – Follow the book’s simple methodology to create professional-looking dashboards using Microsoft Power BI, giving users the capability to slice and dice data and drill down into the results.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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And now?
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Summary

By completing this chapter, you have added another precious instrument to your data analytics practitioners' backpack: Power BI. You have learned how to load data and set up a routine of transformation steps required for cleaning that data and making it useful. You have seen how to define the relationships that connect all tables into a single and coherent data model. You have also seen what it means to build interconnected visuals that allow for human interaction. You have created a dashboard that will enable business users to explore the data they need when they need it, fishing for insights and unveiling business opportunities in complete autonomy.

Now, think about the amount of data that lies largely unutilized and inaccessible in company databases (or even in Excel files stored on individuals' laptops). The business opportunities that wait to be unlocked by making this data visually accessible through a simple dashboard are vast and, in many cases, reasonably...