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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2007
A must-read for a quant, but...
+ Good read, but fooled by randomness is better
+ Life is not predictable
... but Dr. Taleb goes too far by claiming that the quantitative analysts, including statisticians, are (or even were) mesmerized by the Gaussian curve or any other quantitative concept, for that matter. Even the undergrads here at Purdue are taught to understand that the mean and standard ...
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Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, The Future of Professional Services (Knowledge Reader)
Ross Dawson
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
Deceptively Simply, Seriously Valuable
+ Valuable Asset
+ Essential reading for consultants
A great deal of work went into conceptualizing and crafting this book, and I give very high marks to the author, who does a really superb job of integrating insights from knowledge management, information technology, cognitive modeling, and client relationship or account management. This book ...
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Five stars but... for the right audience!
+ A Panacea for Information Overload
I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2007
A must-read for a quant, but...
+ Good read, but fooled by randomness is better
+ Life is not predictable
... but Dr. Taleb goes too far by claiming that the quantitative analysts, including statisticians, are (or even were) mesmerized by the Gaussian curve or any other quantitative concept, for that matter. Even the undergrads here at Purdue are taught to understand that the mean and standard ...
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Five stars but... for the right audience!
+ A Panacea for Information Overload
I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...
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Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, The Future of Professional Services (Knowledge Reader)
Ross Dawson
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
Deceptively Simply, Seriously Valuable
+ Valuable Asset
+ Essential reading for consultants
A great deal of work went into conceptualizing and crafting this book, and I give very high marks to the author, who does a really superb job of integrating insights from knowledge management, information technology, cognitive modeling, and client relationship or account management. This book ...
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