books about: analyzing     books:       The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Rational ...5 reviews Nick Barclay, Adrian Downes Rational Pr, 2007 Another winner from Barclay and Downes When I first started trying to work with Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) I found a terrific little book (Rational Guide) by Nick Barclay and Adrian Downes which saved me a ton of time. Happily the PerformancePoint Monitoring product is intrinsically better than BSM and hence a little easier to understand on its own terms, but none the less this new Rational Guide is a very valuable resource ...             Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive ...5 reviews Thomas Tullis, William Albert Morgan Kaufmann, 2008 a "must have" for usability practitioners Evaluation is near and dear to my heart and this book is straight forward, easy to read and gets right to the point. It is pragmatic and practical -- exactly the kind of book practitioners need. But it is also nice for those of us that think of ourselves as applied researchers too. It not only talks about various measurements -- how to take them, how to present them, when to use them and ...             Fire Your Stock Analyst: Analyzing Stocks On Your Own (Definitive Guides (Financial Times/Prentice Hall))23 reviews Harry Domash FT Press, 2006 Great book on analyzing stocks on your own.......... This book is well written, simple and easy steps to analyze any stock traded. It is written in easy language and very simple steps. I use it in my investments class with my college students and I have had great feedback from my students. So much so that many of my students have moved on to banking jobs and they carry this book to their trading desks with them.             Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data (5th Edition)9 reviews Samuel B. Green, Neil J. Salkind Prentice Hall, 2007 Good manual Using SPSS is a good manual to navigate you through using SPSS. It is idiot-proof to follow if you just do what it says. Time-consuming to read the whole thing but good for picking out specific functions to learn. Would recommend this book. Includes a CD with data sets to use while following along with the reading.             CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature with CD-ROM (REA): The Best Test Prep for the CLEP Analyzing and ...32 reviews The Staff of REA Research & Education Association, 2004 As good a value as available I just took my test and received a 69 after 2 weeks of study. Mind you I took the downloaded practice test (from CLEP) and passed, and then with these 2 test scored under 50%. This caused a little anxiety so I really made an effort to pay attention to the notes and definitions they provided. Along with the coaching on question types, I felt a lot more confident. One of the passages actually was ...             Computer Forensics For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))3 reviews Linda Volonino, Reynaldo Anzaldua For Dummies, 2008 Demystifying computer forensics If you use a computer, you probably know that there is an electronic trail that follows you, and that the trail potentially lasts forever and can cause serious legal problems. This book demystifies how computer forensics is performed, what to do if you are ever in trouble (or trying to help someone who is in trouble), and tools that can help you. Though the topic is potentially complex, the book ...             Analyzing Performance Problems: Or, You Really Oughta Wanna--How to Figure out Why People Aren't Doing What ...10 reviews Robert F. Mager Center for Effective Performance, 1997 A Training and Management Requirement There are two books written my Robert Mager that I highly recommend for people in the field of training. This is one of them. Having been a training specialist for more than fifteen years, I have, on occasion, tried to convince managers and chiefs why training was not a panacea, a be-all, end-all to their performance problems. If they had read a book like this, many of our discussions would ...             Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors45 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Taking Strategy by the Real Meaning It is nice when you see a book that takes the word "strategy" seriously these days. Although written a while ago, the reader finds it talking about what we see today. Understood and applicable by both layman as well as specialists without over-simplification of the framework-based books we find today and without the complexity of others of larger than life strategists. Although written a ...             Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations3 reviews Georgetown University Press, 2008 A "must have" for the intelligence analyst's bookshelf This is not an Analysis 101 book. It is a serious, insightful look at the important aspects of intelligence analysis as it is practiced and should be practiced. The contributors include the elite of the intelligence analysis business - Heuer, Kerr, Davis, Gannon, and Lowenthal, among others. They are people who speak with authority based on their expertise and experience in all aspects of ...             Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code10 reviews Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey, ... Syngress, 2008 Candidate for Best Book Bejtlich Read in 2008 Malware Forensics is an awesome book. Last year Syngress published Harlan Carvey's 5-star Windows Forensic Analysis, and now we get to enjoy this new title by James Aquilina, Eoghan Casey, and Cameron Malin, plus technical editing by Curtis Rose. I should disclose that I co-wrote a forensics book with Curtis Rose, and I just delivered a guest lecture in a class taught by Eoghan Casey. However, ...             Analyzing The Curriculum3 reviews George Posner McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003 Best Primer on Curriculum Available After you get over sticker shock on the price of this book, buy it if you are in need of a basic understanding of how curriculum has been organized and developed in American education. No other publication is comparable to it for its succinct overview of the curriculum process and those who have most profoundly shaped it. However, it does not provide in-depth commentary on the movers and shakers ...             Business Process Improvement Workbook: Documentation, Analysis, Design, and Management of Business Process ...8 reviews H. James Harrington, K. C. Esseling, ... McGraw-Hill, 1997 Process Improvement Classic Reference This book serves as a powerful reference on process improvement. The author, H.J. Harrington, is wise. We can learn a lot from him. He's got great experience from the firm, Ernst and Young. The book provides a deep, well-structured and methodical glimpse into the practice of process improvement. Although there are many books on the subject (older and newer) this book is ...             Analyzing Business Data with Excel6 reviews Gerald Knight O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Are you an experienced Excel user? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Gerald Knight, has done an outstanding job of writing a practical guide that shows you how to solve real-world business problems by taking Excel's data analysis features to the max. Knight, begins by covering averages, trends, correlation, distributions and array formulas. Then, the author examines pivot table ...             Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide10 reviews David McAmis McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001 Excellent Coverage and Design Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide covers everything and more that I wanted to learn about Crystal Reports. The information is easy to digest and there are regular 1-Minute checks along the way. Hands-on experience, in the form of Projects, are dispersed through each chapter (the completed projects can be downloaded from the web). Answers to the Mastery Checks, at the end of every chapter, are ...             CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the CLEP (Test Preps)42 reviews The Staff of REA Research & Education Association, 2003 Passed my exam I studied for about 2 weeks when 1 week would have sufficed. While it was deffinitely overkill with all the information that they provide you with. It definitely prepares you well for the test. If you are looking for an easy 6 credits - I highly recommend using this book for review.             Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics (Hacks)15 reviews Joseph Adler O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Baseball Hacks, the "How to" manual for Moneyball Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics (Hacks), which comes with download able scripts from the O'Reilly site, shows how to do SABR metrics like the big league analysts. If, like me, you wish to use only the free, or open source, programs on Linux, you are in for significant work. I could not get R, (the statistical analysis program much like S-Plus,) to work ...             Planets in Composite: Analyzing Human Relationships (The Planet Series)7 reviews Robert Hand Schiffer Publishing, 1975 A good resource book to own Robert Hand wrote this book back in the 1970s. At that time, composite charts were new to America and to most of the Western world. Although John Townley is the person who is actually credited with bringing the technique to our shores, both Townley and Hand (who have also written the introductions for each other's groundbreaking texts) have pretty much structured the foundation of our ...             The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data2 reviews Ronen Feldman, James Sanger Cambridge University Press, 2006 Great overview This was one of the few books that included a very clear and extensive treatment of information extraction techniques. There were plenty of diagrams which is great for a visual learner. All the techniques are explained using both plain English and formulas, so that you can pick up the scientific notation with minimal previous knowledge. Even when the authors plug their own company and ...             Media Planning Workbook1 review William Goodrich, Jack Sissors McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2001 Must have if you are a Marketing Student Is an excellent book for marketing students,             Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition13 reviews Craig S. Fleisher, Babette Bensoussan Prentice Hall, 2002 Selected as "the" text for government all-source analysts Edit of 21 Dec 07 to add links. Rather than outline the wonderful aspects of this book, which other reviewers have done so ably, I will just say that I rank the authors up there with Ben Gilad (Israel), Mats Bjore (Sweden), and Jan Herring, Dick Klavens/Brad Ashton, and Leonard Fuld (USA), and we have made this book "the" text for the annual government all-source analysis training that centers ...              search for books approaches, collecting, competition, competitive, competitors, composite, curriculum, definitive, documentation, experience, improvement, industries, innovations, intelligence, interactive, interpreting, investigating, literature, management, monitoring, performance, performancepoint, presenting, relationships, statistics, strategic, techniques, technologies, understanding, unstructured books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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