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Data Science For Dummies
Understand the foundations of data science and modern AI tools with this fully updated beginner's guide Whether you're a business analyst who's never coded, a manager who’s making data-driven decisions, or a career changer eyeing one of the fastest-growing professions, data science skills are vital to success. In the fourth edition of Data Science For Dummies, Lillian Pierson, a fractional CMO and GTM engineer who has trained over two million learners, delivers a hands-on introduction to the key concepts and tools such as AI-enabled shortcuts that make advanced analytics accessible to everyone. This updated edition covers generative AI, prompt engineering, and predictive analytics right alongside evergreen fundamentals like Python programming, statistics, and data wrangling. Brand-new chapters explain practical applications using ChatGPT and Claude, while expanded no-code workflows make AI-powered analysis accessible to readers who have never written a single line of code. Data Science For Dummies walks you through: Foundational skills in Python, statistics, and machine learning for beginners and career changersHands-on generative AI coverage with practical demos using ChatGPT and ClaudeNo-code workflows that show non-programmers how to perform AI-powered data analysis tasksUpdated guidance on ethical AI practices, data regulations, and responsible complianceCareer-focused advice on emerging roles, portfolio building, and industry preparation Perfect for professionals, students, career changers, and business leaders looking for an accessible launching pad into an exciting and rewarding discipline, Data Science For Dummies gives you the foundational skills and modern AI tools you need to extract insights, create visualizations, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
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Data Analytics Applications in Emerging Markets
This book analyzes the impact of technology in emerging markets by considering conditions and the history of how it has changed the way of working and market development in such contexts. The book delves into key areas such as fintech enterprises, artificial intelligence, pension funds, stock markets, and energy markets though applied studies and research. This book is a useful read for practitioners and scholars interested in how technology has and continues to change the way in which development is defined and achieved, particularly in emerging markets.
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Recent Trends and Future Direction for Data Analytics
In an increasingly data-centric world, scholars and practitioners grapple with the complexities of harnessing data analytics effectively across various industries. The challenge lies in navigating the rapid evolution of methodologies, identifying emerging trends, and understanding the nuanced applications of data analytics in real-world scenarios. This gap between theory and practice inhibits academic progress. It hampers industry innovation, leaving stakeholders needing help to leverage data to its full potential. Recent Trends and Future Direction for Data Analytics presents a compelling solution. By delving into real-world case studies spanning supply chain management, marketing, healthcare, and finance, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering invaluable insights into the practical applications of data analytics. A systematic exploration of fundamental concepts, advanced techniques, and specialized topics equips scholars, researchers, and industry professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of data analytics with confidence. This book is designed as a comprehensive resource for academia and industry alike. It serves as a roadmap for understanding the current state of data analytics and anticipating its future trajectories. By offering a blend of theoretical foundations and practical applications, it empowers readers to unlock the full potential of data analytics, driving innovation, informed decision-making, and transformative change across diverse sectors.
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Advanced Interdisciplinary Applications of Machine Learning Python Libraries for Data Science
The world is approaching a point where big data will start to play a beneficial role in many industries and organizations. Today, analyzing data for new insights has become an everyday norm, increasing the need for data analysts to use efficient and appropriate tools to provide quick and valuable results to clients. Existing research in the field currently lacks a full coverage of all essential algorithms, leaving a knowledge void for practical implementation and code in Python with all needed libraries and links to datasets used. Advanced Interdisciplinary Applications of Machine Learning Python Libraries for Data Science serves as a one-stop book to help emerging data scientists gain hands-on skills needed through real-world data and completely up-to-date Python code. It covers all the technical details, from installing the needed software to importing libraries and using the latest data sets; deciding on the right model; training, testing, and evaluating the model; and including NumPy, Pandas, and matplotlib. With coverage on various machine learning algorithms like regression, linear and logical regression, classification, support vector machine (SVM), clustering, k-nearest neighbor, market basket analysis, Apriori, k-means clustering, and visualization using Seaborne, it is designed for academic researchers, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, executive education program leaders, and practitioners.
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Advanced Digital Technologies in Financial and Business Management
This new book explores emerging new technologies for the development of business and finance sectors, to strengthen economic growth, and to facilitate the efficiency and creation of new and innovative business and finance management applications. The book covers state-of-the-art technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data analytics in fintech and finance, blockchain technology in the insurance industry, the use of AI and data science in tax administration, the growing use of 6G in industrial automation, quantum machine learning in finance, the merging of AI and blockchain in auditing, and more. Chapters explore the collaboration between humans and machines, the application of data science and artificial intelligence in the retail sector, and AI and data science in business services with a focus on enhancing efficiency and driving innovation.
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Scientific Data: A 50 Steps Guide using Python
This guide offers a comprehensive understanding of experimental data analysis in the natural sciences while ensuring sustainable processing routines from a programmer's perspective. It applies a concise problem-solution-discussion format, supported by Python code snippets, catering to practitioners.
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Python for Information Professionals
Python for Information Professionals: How to Design Practical Applications to Capitalize on the Data Explosion is an introduction to the Python programming language for library and information professionals with little or no prior experience. As opposed to the many Python books available today that focus on the language only from a general sense, this book is designed specifically for information professionals who are seeking to advance their career prospects or challenge themselves in new ways by acquiring skills within the rapidly expanding field of data science. Readers of Python for Information Professionals will learn to:Develop Python applications for the retrieval, cleaning, and analysis of large datasets. Design applications to support traditional library functions and create new opportunities to maximize library value. Consider data security and privacy relevant to data analysis when using the Python language.
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Digital Economy, Business Analytics, and Big Data Analytics Applications
This book is about turning data into smart decisions, knowledge into wisdom and business into business intelligence and insight. It explores diverse paradigms, methodologies, models, tools and techniques of the emerging knowledge domain of digitalized business analytics applications.The book covers almost every crucial aspect of applied artificial intelligence in business, smart mobile and digital services in business administration, marketing, accounting, logistics, finance and IT management.This book aids researchers, practitioners and decisions makers to gain enough knowledge and insight on how to effectively leverage data into competitive intelligence.
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Data Analytics
Good data analytics is the basis for effective decisions. Whoever has the data, has the ability to extract information promptly and effectively to make pertinent decisions. The premise of this handbook is to empower users and tool developers with the appropriate collection of formulas and techniques for data analytics and to serve as a quick reference to keep pertinent formulas within fingertip reach of readers. This handbook includes formulas that will appeal to mathematically inclined readers. It discusses how to use data analytics to improve decision-making and is ideal for those new to using data analytics to show how to expand their usage horizon. It provides quantitative techniques for modeling pandemics, such as COVID-19. It also adds to the suite of mathematical tools for emerging technical areas. This handbook is a handy reference for researchers, practitioners, educators, and students in areas such as industrial engineering, production engineering, project management, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, technology management, and business management worldwide.
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Investment Analytics In The Dawn Of Artificial Intelligence
A class of highly mathematical algorithms works with three-dimensional (3D) data known as graphs. Our research challenge focuses on applying these algorithms to solve more complex problems with financial data, which tend to be in higher dimensions (easily over 100), based on probability distributions, with time subscripts and jumps. The 3D research analogy is to train a navigation algorithm when the way-finding coordinates and obstacles such as buildings change dynamically and are expressed in higher dimensions with jumps.Our short title 'ia≠ai' symbolizes how investment analytics is not a simplistic reapplication of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques proven in engineering. This book presents best-of-class sophisticated techniques available today to solve high dimensional problems with properties that go deeper than what is required to solve customary problems in engineering today.Dr Bernard Lee is the Founder and CEO of HedgeSPA, which stands for Sophisticated Predictive Analytics for Hedge Funds and Institutions. Previously, he was a managing director in the Portfolio Management Group of BlackRock in New York City as well as a finance professor who has taught and guest-lectured at a number of top universities globally.Related Link(s)
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Predictive Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data
This in-depth guide provides managers with a solid understanding of data and data trends, the opportunities that it can offer to businesses, and the dangers of these technologies. Written in an accessible style, Steven Finlay provides a contextual roadmap for developing solutions that deliver benefits to organizations.
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Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python
Discover the inner workings of today's forex market, the essential risks in forex algo trading, and how to mitigate themKey FeaturesBuild trading applications with research and without advanced Python programming skillsDive into professional fx trading while enhancing your trading apps to be more accurateDevelop simple yet efficient backtesting applications to help keep your expectations realisticBook DescriptionAlgorithm-based trading is a popular choice for Python programmers due to its apparent simplicity. However, very few traders get the results they want, partly because they aren't able to capture the complexity of the factors that influence the market. Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python helps you understand the market and build an application that reaps desirable results. The book is a comprehensive guide to everything that is market-related: data, orders, trading venues, and risk. From the programming side, you'll learn the general architecture of trading applications, systemic risk management, de-facto industry standards such as FIX protocol, and practical examples of using simple Python codes. You'll gain an understanding of how to connect to data sources and brokers, implement trading logic, and perform realistic tests. Throughout the book, you'll be encouraged to further study the intricacies of algo trading with the help of code snippets. By the end of this book, you'll have a deep understanding of the fx market from the perspective of a professional trader. You'll learn to retrieve market data, clean it, filter it, compress it into various formats, apply trading logic, emulate the execution of orders, and test the trading app before trading live.What you will learnExplore the forex market organization and operationsUnderstand the sources of alpha and the concept of algo tradingGet a grasp on typical risks and ways to mitigate themUnderstand fundamental and technical analysisConnect to data sources and check the integrity of market dataUse API and FIX protocol to send ordersTranslate trading ideas into codeRun reliable backtesting emulating real-world market conditionsWho this book is forThis book is for financial traders and python developers who are interested in forex trading. Academic researchers looking to focus on practical applications will find this book useful. This book can also help established fx market professionals who want to take the first steps in algo trading. Familiarity with Python and object-oriented programming within the scope of an online course or self-study is a must. Knowledge of network protocols and interfaces is a plus but not a prerequisite, as is specific knowledge about markets and trading.
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Primer on Business Analytics
This book will provide a comprehensive overview of business analytics, for those who have either a technical background (quantitative methods) or a practitioner business background. Business analytics, in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution, is the "new normal" for businesses that operate in this digital age. This book provides a comprehensive primer and overview of the field (and related fields such as Business Intelligence and Data Science). It will discuss the field as it applies to financial institutions, with some minor departures to other industries. Readers will gain understanding and insight into the field of data science, including traditional as well as emerging techniques. Further, many chapters are dedicated to the establishment of a data-driven team – from executive buy-in and corporate governance to managing and quantifying the return of data-driven projects.
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Quantitative Financial Analytics: The Path To Investment Profits
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets the need for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in quantitative disciplines, who wish to apply their craft to the world of investments. In addition, entrepreneurs will find the volume to be especially useful. It also contains a clearly detailed explanation of many recent developments in portfolio and capital market theory as well as a thorough procedural discussion of security analysis. Professionals preparing for the CPA, CFA, and or CFP examinations will also benefit from a close scrutiny of the many problems following each chapter.The level of difficulty progresses through the textbook with more advanced treatment appearing in the latter sections of each chapter, and the last chapters of the volume.
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Time Series for Economics and Finance
Focusing on methods for data that are ordered in time, this textbook provides a comprehensive guide to analyzing time series data using modern techniques from data science. It is specifically tailored to economics and finance applications, aiming to provide students with rigorous training. Chapters cover Bayesian approaches, nonparametric smoothing methods, machine learning, and continuous time econometrics. Theoretical and empirical exercises, concise summaries, bolded key terms, and illustrative examples are included throughout to reinforce key concepts and bolster understanding. Ancillary materials include an instructor's manual with solutions and additional exercises, PowerPoint lecture slides, and datasets. With its clear and accessible style, this textbook is an essential tool for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in economics, finance, and statistics.
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Machine Learning Applications Using Python
Gain practical skills in machine learning for finance, healthcare, and retail. This book uses a hands-on approach by providing case studies from each of these domains: you’ll see examples that demonstrate how to use machine learning as a tool for business enhancement. As a domain expert, you will not only discover how machine learning is used in finance, healthcare, and retail, but also work through practical case studies where machine learning has been implemented. Machine Learning Applications Using Python is divided into three sections, one for each of the domains (healthcare, finance, and retail). Each section starts with an overview of machine learning and key technological advancements in that domain. You’ll then learn more by using case studies on how organizations are changing the game in their chosen markets. This book has practical case studies with Python code and domain-specific innovative ideas for monetizing machine learning. What You Will LearnDiscover applied machine learning processes and principlesImplement machine learning in areas of healthcare, finance, and retailAvoid the pitfalls of implementing applied machine learningBuild Python machine learning examples in the three subject areasWho This Book Is ForData scientists and machine learning professionals.
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Business Analytics
This exciting new textbook offers an accessible, business-focused overview of the key theoretical concepts underpinning modern data analytics. It provides engaging and practical advice on using the key software tools, including SAS Visual Analytics, R and DataRobot, that are used in organisations to help make effective data-driven decisions. Combining theory with hands-on practical examples, this essential text includes cutting edge coverage of new areas of interest including social media analytics, design thinking and the ethical implications of using big data. A wealth of learning features including exercises, cases, online resources and data sets help students to develop analytic problem-solving skills.With its management perspective on analytics and its coverage of a range of popular software tools, this is an ideal essential text for upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students. It is also ideal for practitioners wanting to understand the broader organisational context of big data analysis and to engage critically with the tools and techniques of business analytics.Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/business-analytics. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
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Data Warehousing and Analytics
This textbook covers all central activities of data warehousing and analytics, including transformation, preparation, aggregation, integration, and analysis. It discusses the full spectrum of the journey of data from operational/transactional databases, to data warehouses and data analytics; as well as the role that data warehousing plays in the data processing lifecycle. It also explains in detail how data warehouses may be used by data engines, such as BI tools and analytics algorithms to produce reports, dashboards, patterns, and other useful information and knowledge.The book is divided into six parts, ranging from the basics of data warehouse design (Part I - Star Schema, Part II - Snowflake and Bridge Tables, Part III - Advanced Dimensions, and Part IV - Multi-Fact and Multi-Input), to more advanced data warehousing concepts (Part V - Data Warehousing and Evolution) and data analytics (Part VI - OLAP, BI, and Analytics).This textbook approaches data warehousing from the case study angle. Each chapter presents one or more case studies to thoroughly explain the concepts and has different levels of difficulty, hence learning is incremental. In addition, every chapter has also a section on further readings which give pointers and references to research papers related to the chapter. All these features make the book ideally suited for either introductory courses on data warehousing and data analytics, or even for self-studies by professionals. The book is accompanied by a web page that includes all the used datasets and codes as well as slides and solutions to exercises.
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Business Analytics for Decision Making
Business Analytics for Decision Making, the first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA or upper undergraduate level. This timely text is mainly about model analytics, particularly analytics for constrained optimization. It uses implementations that allow students to explore models and data for the sake of discovery, understanding, and decision making.Business analytics is about using data and models to solve various kinds of decision problems. There are three aspects for those who want to make the most of their analytics: encoding, solution design, and post-solution analysis. This textbook addresses all three. Emphasizing the use of constrained optimization models for decision making, the book concentrates on post-solution analysis of models. The text focuses on computationally challenging problems that commonly arise in business environments. Unique among business analytics texts, it emphasizes using heuristics for solving difficult optimization problems important in business practice by making best use of methods from Computer Science and Operations Research. Furthermore, case studies and examples illustrate the real-world applications of these methods. The authors supply examples in Excel®, GAMS, MATLAB®, and OPL. The metaheuristics code is also made available at the book's website in a documented library of Python modules, along with data and material for homework exercises. From the beginning, the authors emphasize analytics and de-emphasize representation and encoding so students will have plenty to sink their teeth into regardless of their computer programming experience.
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Data Analytics and Visualization in Quality Analysis using Tableau
Data Analytics and Visualization in Quality Analysis using Tableau goes beyond the existing quality statistical analysis. It helps quality practitioners perform effective quality control and analysis using Tableau, a user-friendly data analytics and visualization software. It begins with a basic introduction to quality analysis with Tableau including differentiating factors from other platforms. It is followed by a description of features and functions of quality analysis tools followed by step-by-step instructions on how to use Tableau. Further, quality analysis through Tableau based on open source data is explained based on five case studies. Lastly, it systematically describes the implementation of quality analysis through Tableau in an actual workplace via a dashboard example.Features: Describes a step-by-step method of Tableau to effectively apply data visualization techniques in quality analysis Focuses on a visualization approach for practical quality analysis Provides comprehensive coverage of quality analysis topics using state-of-the-art concepts and applications Illustrates pragmatic implementation methodology and instructions applicable to real-world and business cases Include examples of ready-to-use templates of customizable Tableau dashboardsThis book is aimed at professionals, graduate students and senior undergraduate students in industrial systems and quality engineering, process engineering, systems engineering, quality control, quality assurance and quality analysis.
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Python for Linguists
Specifically designed for linguists, this book provides an introduction to programming using Python for those with little to no experience of coding. Python is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages as it's also available for free and runs on any operating system. All examples in the text involve language data and can be adapted or used directly for language research. The text focuses on key language-related issues: searching, text manipulation, text encoding and internet data, providing an excellent resource for language research. More experienced users of Python will also benefit from the advanced chapters on graphical user interfaces and functional programming.
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Sensitivity Analysis for Business, Technology, and Policymaking
SimDec is a revolution in decision-making support. SimDec “teases out” inherent cause-and-effect relationships and reveals the intricacy of relationships between sets of input and output variables. At its core, SimDec is an amalgamation of uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis with an innovative visualization technique. While straightforward and elegant, this novel approach significantly enhances the analytical capabilities of users by readily exposing seemingly, a priori, counter-intuitive behaviors so that they can be readily understood by both technical specialists and non-technical users, alike.This book is the first to articulate the ubiquitous applicability of SimDec and has been written by the leading proponents of the technique. The book provides the necessary background to fully understand the underlying approach and then demonstrates its applicability to a wide spectrum of fields such as finance, entrepreneurship, energy, 3D manufacturing, geology, the environment, engineering, public policy, and even superconducting magnets. To facilitate as widespread adoption and penetration of SimDec as possible, all supporting computer codes are available, open-source, in Python, Julia, R, and Matlab.The innovative material will be of primary benefit to practitioners and researchers analyzing data from the social sciences, business, science, engineering, mathematics, and computing.
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High Performance Python
Your Python code may run correctly, but what if you need it to run faster? This practical book shows you how to locate performance bottlenecks and significantly speed up your code in high-data-volume programs. By explaining the fundamental theory behind design choices, this expanded edition of High Performance Python helps experienced Python programmers gain a deeper understanding of Python's implementation.How do you take advantage of multicore architectures or compilation? Or build a system that scales up beyond RAM limits or with a GPU? Authors Micha Gorelick and Ian Ozsvald reveal concrete solutions to many issues and include war stories from companies that use high-performance Python for GenAI data extraction, productionized machine learning, and more.Get a better grasp of NumPy, Cython, and profilersLearn how Python abstracts the underlying computer architectureUse profiling to find bottlenecks in CPU time and memory usageWrite efficient programs by choosing appropriate data structuresSpeed up matrix and vector computationsProcess DataFrames quickly with Pandas, Dask, and PolarsSpeed up your neural networks and GPU computationsUse tools to compile Python down to machine codeManage multiple I/O and computational operations concurrentlyConvert multiprocessing code to run on local or remote clusters
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Big Data Finance in China
This book starts by introducing the background of the era of data elements, clarifies the theoretical basis and technical methods related to big data, and analyzes the specific application of big data technology in China’s banking industry, the insurance industry, securities investment industry, third-party payment, risk supervision, and other fields. application, and thereby finally summarize useful experiences for big data development as well as effective regulation and supervision. We hope that this book can help with subsequent research and application of big data technology in the financial field. This book has a broad audience, especially scholars and practitioners. It is a valuable reference for researchers in related fields, and it can also provide some insights into financial regulators’ awareness of big data finance. Furthermore, it aids in formulating and improving consumption policies, adjusting economic structures, and preventing risks under financial innovation. This research provides valuable guidance for improving financial innovation as well as the effective regulation thereon by financial regulators.
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Big Data Applications in Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is the latest technological innovation in manufacturing with the goal to increase productivity in a flexible and efficient manner. Changing the way in which manufacturers operate, this revolutionary transformation is powered by various technology advances including Big Data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cloud computing. Big Data analytics has been identified as one of the significant components of Industry 4.0, as it provides valuable insights for smart factory management. Big Data and Industry 4.0 have the potential to reduce resource consumption and optimize processes, thereby playing a key role in achieving sustainable development. Big Data Applications in Industry 4.0 covers the recent advancements that have emerged in the field of Big Data and its applications. The book introduces the concepts and advanced tools and technologies for representing and processing Big Data. It also covers applications of Big Data in such domains as financial services, education, healthcare, biomedical research, logistics, and warehouse management. Researchers, students, scientists, engineers, and statisticians can turn to this book to learn about concepts, technologies, and applications that solve real-world problems. Features An introduction to data science and the types of data analytics methods accessible today An overview of data integration concepts, methodologies, and solutions A general framework of forecasting principles and applications, as well as basic forecasting models including naïve, moving average, and exponential smoothing models A detailed roadmap of the Big Data evolution and its related technological transformation in computing, along with a brief description of related terminologies The application of Industry 4.0 and Big Data in the field of education The features, prospects, and significant role of Big Data in the banking industry, as well as various use cases of Big Data in banking, finance services, and insurance Implementing a Data Lake (DL) in the cloud and the significance of a data lake in decision making
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Pricing Analytics
This updated and expanded second edition has the same theme as the first: the price, the number, someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product, comes from statistically modeling data.Five new chapters provide a wider perspective on pricing analytics to more effectively develop elasticities and pricing strategies. This book gives readers the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product, based on economic and statistical principles and theory. It covers elasticities, methodologies for analyzing customer choices including conjoint analysis, pricing segmentation, big data and econometric models—now with improved explanations and developments. The second edition adds discussion of three important and advanced topics: simulations for testing strategies under different conditions such as scenario analysis, AI applications for elasticity estimation and dynamic pricing, and the impacts of tariffs.A comprehensive and essential resource for analysts—economists, statisticians, or market researchers—who must estimate the optimal price for a product or service, this book is also a helpful guide for upper-level students in analytics disciplines.
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R In Finance And Economics: A Beginner's Guide
This book provides an introduction to the statistical software R and its application with an empirical approach in finance and economics. It is specifically targeted towards undergraduate and graduate students. It provides beginner-level introduction to R using RStudio and reproducible research examples. It will enable students to use R for data cleaning, data visualization and quantitative model building using statistical methods like linear regression, econometrics (GARCH etc), Copulas, etc. Moreover, the book demonstrates latest research methods with applications featuring linear regression, quantile regression, panel regression, econometrics, dependence modelling, etc. using a range of data sets and examples.
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Practical Business Finance with AI
Turn financial information into actionable business insights using statement analysis, budgeting, forecasting, KPIs, and AI-supported decision-making.Key FeaturesInterpret financial statements and assess business performance with confidenceBuild budgets, forecasts, and cost analyses to support informed decisionsApply KPIs, financial analytics, and AI to generate business insightsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionBuild the financial intelligence to understand what business numbers mean and use them to make informed decisions. This book takes you from essential accounting concepts to practical financial analysis, planning, performance evaluation, and AI-supported decision-making.You’ll learn to interpret income statements and balance sheets, assess cash flow and financial health, and evaluate costs, profitability, and break-even points. You’ll then develop budgeting and forecasting skills for financial planning and use financial analytics and KPIs to turn performance data into useful business insights.The book also shows you how AI can support financial analysis and decision-making. Rather than treating finance concepts in isolation, it connects them through practical business applications so you can relate financial information to planning and performance decisions.Written by Valentine Ifenna Okolo, a multidisciplinary business professional with nearly two decades of experience across banking, accounting, financial analysis, audit, control, compliance, and business systems, the book concludes with a capstone financial analysis and business review that brings the core concepts together.What you will learnInterpret income statements and balance sheetsAssess cash flow and overall financial healthBuild budgets and forecasts for financial planningAnalyze costs, break-even points, and profitabilityUse financial analytics and KPIs to assess performanceApply AI to financial analysis and decision supportTurn financial findings into business recommendationsWho this book is forManagers, team leaders, entrepreneurs, business owners, project managers, financial analysts, aspiring FP&A professionals, and consultants who want to interpret financial information and make better business decisions will benefit from this book. It is particularly suited to non-finance professionals seeking stronger financial and business acumen. No formal finance or accounting background is required.
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Handbook Of Financial Services Performance: Analytical And Empirical Perspectives
This book examines how emerging technologies are reshaping performance measurement in financial services. It delivers an integrated and authoritative treatment of the subject, encompassing conceptual foundations, methodological innovations, empirical evidence, and bibliometric analyses. Special attention is given to the transformative role of AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data in improving predictive accuracy, operational benchmarking, and strategic decision-making. Unlike conventional performance analysis, this book focuses on the unique structural and operational complexities of financial service firms where inputs and outputs often overlap, are intangible, and resist traditional quantification. The contributors bring deep expertise and diverse regional perspectives, positioning this volume as a benchmark in global financial services research. With its extensive literature reviews and curated citations, the book is an indispensable reference for academics, policymakers, and industry analysts seeking to navigate the evolving landscape of performance measurement in the digital era.
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World of Business with Data and Analytics
This book covers research work spanning the breadth of ventures, a variety of challenges and the finest of techniques used to address data and analytics, by subject matter experts from the business world. The content of this book highlights the real-life business problems that are relevant to any industry and technology environment. This book helps us become a contributor to and accelerator of artificial intelligence, data science and analytics, deploy a structured life-cycle approach to data related issues, apply appropriate analytical tools & techniques to analyze data and deliver solutions with a difference. It also brings out the story-telling element in a compelling fashion using data and analytics. This prepares the readers to drive quantitative and qualitative outcomes and apply this mindset to various business actions in different domains such as energy, manufacturing, health care, BFSI, security, etc.
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