Data Analytics Made Easy

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.

Type
ebook
Category
publication date
2021-08-30
what you will learn

Understand the potential of data and its impact on your business
Import, clean, transform, combine data feeds, and automate your processes
Influence business decisions by learning to create engaging presentations
Build real-world models to improve profitability, create customer segmentation, automate and improve data reporting, and more
Create professional-looking and business-centric visuals and dashboards
Open the lid on the black box of AI and learn about and implement supervised and unsupervised machine learning models

no of pages
406
duration
812
key features
Enhance your presentation skills by implementing engaging data storytelling and visualization techniques * Learn the basics of machine learning and easily apply machine learning models to your data * Improve productivity by automating your data processes
approach
This book is a perfect blend of theoretical explanations and practical tips to help you gear up with data analytics and prepare for real-world data analytics.
audience
This book is for beginners who work with data and those who need to know how to interpret their business/customer data. The book also covers the high-level concepts of data workflows, machine learning, data storytelling, and visualizations, which are useful for managers.

No previous math, statistics, or computer science knowledge is required.
meta description
Learn how to gain insights from your data as well as machine learning and become a presentation pro who can create interactive dashboards
short description
This book takes away the fear of working with, analyzing, and visualizing data. Understand the key concepts involved with data analytics while working with real-world business examples. You are introduced to two fantastic tools to cleanse and analyze data (KNIME) and visualize your insights (Microsoft Power BI), but the principles from this book can apply to any platform you decide to use.
subtitle
Analyze and present data to make informed decisions without writing any code
keywords
Power bi, powerbi, presentations, data analysis, excel, sql, google sheets, ml, machine learning, data visualization, business analytics, knime, spreadsheet, database, dashboard, data storytelling
Product ISBN
9781801074155