Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

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Pros

Each skill is introduced in the familiar environment of excel and its spreadsheets. While r is more powerful and faster than excel, its black box method is harder to explain. R and python are free for the download.

It's readable, engaging, and really encourages you to work through the examples as you go along. Explanations of the concepts are excellent as well as the explanations of the methodology. Funny and readable style too.

Foreman’s excel formulas breakdown each tactic into an “easier” to demonstrate model. Foreman recommends a free resource as a follow-on to his forecasting chapter.

If you're on pluto this is the book you need. The book is easily understandable. This book is transformative!

Part of my job entails self enrichment. It is worthwhile for the reader because tangible learning occurs as the data is worked through and the business challenges are demonstrably solved.

Cons

I just find myself reading excel instructions and falling asleep. Some editing/continuity errors make somethings hard to understand. Once you start working with large enterprise level data sets, excel becomes useless.

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Quality

This was my first “data science” book and it really showed me how much i need to learn which was done gracefullyfor what i am t... Read More

The book finalizes bridging the stepbystep learning with the real world robust data crunching platforms

1 star for the low quality print job

If something does not make sense in the book you are able to tinker with the spreadsheet or read the formulas in excel to direc... Read More

Price

The courses are free unless you want completion certificates in which case there is nominal cost

Competitiveness

Bartel wrote a 3star rating because he felt it jumped around

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This product had a total of 347 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 12 2022.