BI Book Summary

Remarks

Book name: Business Intelligence, analytics, and data science: a managerial perspective.
Book authors:
- Ramesh Sharda.
- Dursun Delen.
- Efraim Turban.
Book publisher: Pearson.
Book edition: fourth edition.
These notes are based on my understanding and they are intended to be used as a summary for me to go back to from time to time. Anyone reading this should not rely on my summary and should always revert to the original source.
These notes are supplemented with addtional sources and commentary as needed.

This book contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 – an overview of business intelligence, analytics, and data science.
Chapter 2 – descriptive analytics 1: nature of data, statistical modeling, and visualization.
Chapter 3 – descriptive analytics 2: business intelligence and data warehousing.
Chapter 4 – predictive analytics 1: data mining process, methods, and algorithms.
Chapter 5 – predictive analytics 2: text, web, and social media analytics.
Chapter 6 – prescriptive analytics: optimization and simulation.
Chapter 7 – big data concepts and tools.
Chapter 8 – future trends, privacy and managerial considerations in analytics.

Plan of the book:

plan of the book