Plenty of small businesses face big amounts of data but lack the internal skills to support quantitative analysis. This book explains how to harness the power of data analysis using the latest open source technology so that companies may provide better customer service, visualize customer needs and even obtain fresh insights about the performance of previous products.

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Title: Practical Data Analysis: For small businesses, analyzing the information contained in their data using open source technology could be game-changing. All you need is some basic programming and mathematical skills to do just that.
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1783280999
ISBN 13: 9781783280995
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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Practical Data Analysis is a practical, step-by-step guide to empower small businesses to manage and analyze your data and extract valuable information from the data. This book is for developers, small business users, and analysts who want to implement data analysis and visualization for their company in a practical way. You need no prior experience with data analysis or data processing; however, basic knowledge of programming, statistics, and linear algebra is assumed.

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Hector Cuesta

Hector Cuesta holds a B.A in Informatics and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He provides consulting services for software engineering and data analysis with experience in a variety of industries including financial services, social networking, e-learning, and human resources.

He is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Mexico State (UAEM). His main research interests lie in computational epidemiology, machine learning, computer vision, high-performance computing, big data, simulation, and data visualization.

He helped in the technical review of the books, Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook by Rick Golden and Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook by Shumin Guo for Packt Publishing. He is also a columnist at Software Guru magazine and he has published several scientific papers in international journals and conferences. He is an enthusiast of Lego Robotics and Raspberry Pi in his spare time.

You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hmCuesta.

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