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Hands-On Prescriptive Analytics

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Hands-On Prescriptive Analytics

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

Business decisions in any context—operational, tactical, or strategic—can have considerable consequences. Whether the outcome is positive and rewarding or negative and damaging to the business, its employees, and stakeholders is unknown when action is approved. These decisions are usually made under the proverbial cloud of uncertainty. With this practical guide, data analysts, data scientists, and business analysts will learn why and how maximizing positive consequences and minimizing negative ones requires three forms of rich information: Descriptive analytics explores the results from an action—what has already happened. Predictive analytics focuses on what could happen. The third, prescriptive analytics, informs us what should happen in the future. While all three are important for decision-makers, the primary focus of this book is on the third: prescriptive analytics. Author Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D. shows you: The distinction among descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics How predictive analytics produces a menu of action options How prescriptive analytics narrows the menu of action options The forms of prescriptive analytics: eight prescriptive methods Two broad classes of these methods: non-stochastic and stochastic How to develop prescriptive analyses for action recommendations Ways to use an appropriate tool-set in Python

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1098153138

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9781098153137

Business Analytics

Data Science for Business Problems

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Business Analytics

Data Science for Business Problems

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

This book focuses on three core knowledge requirements for effective and thorough data analysis for solving business problems. These are a foundational understanding of: 1. statistical, econometric, and machine learning techniques; 2. data handling capabilities; 3. at least one programming language. Practical in orientation, the volume offers illustrative case studies throughout and examples using Python in the context of Jupyter notebooks. Covered topics include demand measurement and forecasting, predictive modeling, pricing analytics, customer satisfaction assessment, market and advertising research, and new product development and research. This volume will be useful to business data analysts, data scientists, and market research professionals, as well as aspiring practitioners in business data analytics. It can also be used in colleges and universities offering courses and certifications in business data analytics, data science, and market research.

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Springer Nature

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3030870235

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9783030870232

Modern Survey Analysis

Using Python for Deeper Insights

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Modern Survey Analysis

Using Python for Deeper Insights

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

This book develops survey data analysis tools in Python, to create and analyze cross-tab tables and data visuals, weight data, perform hypothesis tests, and handle special survey questions such as Check-all-that-Apply. In addition, the basics of Bayesian data analysis and its Python implementation are presented. Since surveys are widely used as the primary method to collect data, and ultimately information, on attitudes, interests, and opinions of customers and constituents, these tools are vital for private or public sector policy decisions. As a compact volume, this book uses case studies to illustrate methods of analysis essential for those who work with survey data in either sector. It focuses on two overarching objectives: Demonstrate how to extract actionable, insightful, and useful information from survey data; and Introduce Python and Pandas for analyzing survey data.

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Springer Nature

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303076267X

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9783030762674

Deep Data Analytics for New Product Development

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Deep Data Analytics for New Product Development

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

This book presents and develops the deep data analytics for providing the information needed for successful new product development. Deep Data Analytics for New Product Development has a simple theme: information about what customers need and want must be extracted from data to effectively guide new product decisions regarding concept development, design, pricing, and marketing. The benefits of reading this book are twofold. The first is an understanding of the stages of a new product development process from ideation through launching and tracking, each supported by information about customers. The second benefit is an understanding of the deep data analytics for extracting that information from data. These analytics, drawn from the statistics, econometrics, market research, and machine learning spaces, are developed in detail and illustrated at each stage of the process with simulated data. The stages of new product development and the supporting deep data analytics at each stage are not presented in isolation of each other, but are presented as a synergistic whole. This book is recommended reading for analysts involved in new product development. Readers with an analytical bent or who want to develop analytical expertise would also greatly benefit from reading this book, as well as students in business programs.

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Routledge

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0429663315

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9780429663314

Pricing Analytics

Models and Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Product Pricing

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Pricing Analytics

Models and Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Product Pricing

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

The theme of this book is simple. The price – the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product – comes from data. Specifically, itcomes from statistically modeling the data. This book gives the reader the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product. But statistical modeling is not done in a vacuum. Economic and statistical principles and theory conjointly provide the background and framework for the models. Therefore, this book emphasizes two interlocking components of modeling: economic theory and statistical principles. The economic theory component is sufficient to provide understanding of the basic principles for pricing, especially about elasticities, which measure the effects of pricing on key business metrics. Elasticity estimation is the goal of statistical modeling, so attention is paid to the concept and implications of elasticities. The statistical modeling component is advanced and detailed covering choice (conjoint, discrete choice, MaxDiff) and sales data modeling. Experimental design principles, model estimation approaches, and analysis methods are discussed and developed for choice models. Regression fundamentals have been developed for sales model specification and estimation and expanded for latent class analysis.

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Routledge

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1351713094

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9781351713092

Market Data Analysis Using JMP

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Market Data Analysis Using JMP

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

With the powerful interactive and visual functionality of JMP, you can dynamically analyze market data to transform it into actionable and useful information with clear, concise, and insightful reports and displays. Market Data Analysis Using JMP is a unique example-driven book because it has a specific application focus: market data analysis. A working knowledge of JMP will help you turn your market data into vital knowledge that will help you succeed in a highly competitive, fast-moving, and dynamic business world. This book can be used as a stand-alone resource for working professionals, or as a supplement to a business school course in market data research. Anyone who works with market data will benefit from reading and studying this book, then using JMP to apply the dynamic analytical concepts to their market data. After reading this book, you will be able to quickly and effortlessly use JMP to: prepare market data for analysis use and interpret sophisticated statistical methods build choice models estimate regression models to turn data into useful and actionable information Market Data Analysis Using JMP will teach you how to use dynamic graphics to illustrate your market data analysis and explore the vast possibilities that your data can offer!

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SAS Institute

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1629604852

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Predictive and Simulation Analytics

Deeper Insights for Better Business Decisions

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

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Predictive and Simulation Analytics

Deeper Insights for Better Business Decisions

By: Walter R. Paczkowski

This book connects predictive analytics and simulation analytics, with the end goal of providing Rich Information to stakeholders in complex systems to direct data-driven decisions. Readers will explore methods for extracting information from data, work with simple and complex systems, and meld multiple forms of analytics for a more nuanced understanding of data science. The methods can be readily applied to business problems such as demand measurement and forecasting, predictive modeling, pricing analytics including elasticity estimation, customer satisfaction assessment, market research, new product development, and more. The book includes Python examples in Jupyter notebooks, available at the book's affiliated Github. This volume is intended for current and aspiring business data analysts, data scientists, and market research professionals, in both the private and public sectors.

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