1st Edition

Making Sense of Data and Information

By Elearn Copyright 2007
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

Managers need to be able to make sense of data and to use it selectively to answer key questions: Why has quality fallen in the last week? Should we subcontract or employ more people? What will consumer demand be in the future? They need to be able to assess the value of data and to detect what is and what isn’t spin. The focus is on analysing numbers. On their own, figures tell us very little.... Read more
List of activities, List of figures, List of tables, Series preface, Introduction: Making sense of data and information, 1. Becoming a critical thinker, 2. Finding and showing the message in numbers, 3. Using computer tools, 4. Analytical statistics, References

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