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Publisher's Summary
Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, or just carry a phone, we create data. Yet, we do not benefit from this wealth of information as much as we should. Andreas Weigend - an advisor to Alibaba, BMW, Hyatt, MasterCard, and Lufthansa, among others - wants to change that. In Data for the People, he proposes six basic data rights that we all need to make better decisions. Big data is here to stay. The time has come to shift the balance of power back to the individual and find out how data is being used and what needs to change to make data work for you. Vital listening for anyone who owns a mobile phone, Internet connection, or even a debit card, Data for the People puts the power of data back into our hands.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-03-17
Thought Provoking & Mind Blowing, A Must Read!
What did you love best about Data for the People?
The author perspective on data is profound and insightful. As someone working in Silicone Valley, lots of ideas from the book are very stimulating for my understanding of the data world. I'm especially intrigued by how the author connects the dots and talks about data in a positive way, instead of the common "people vs big corporation/government" type of fear based narrative. Highly recommended to anyone, and a must read for people interested in data!
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- Tim Martin
- 06-11-20
The new oil
Maybe too long - a 25% editing trim would have helped. That said, there were plenty of interesting angles I hadn't considered and I'm happy I made the purchase. And that said, potential solutions to the many problems presented, even if they mostly do make sense, are internet light-years away from any practical implementation. In this respect, 'Data for the People' is more manifesto than users guide. I did like Weigend's take on the possible roll that data brokers and the data factories themselves could play to our benefit - refreshing after reading several 'baton down the hatches' approaches to personal data management.
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- Morena
- 09-02-19
This book sucks. I bought it by mistake...
... tried giving it a chance, disliked it... and it is not elegible to return. :-( yaykes.
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- TechyTwonk74
- 11-28-21
Data for the elite
This guy basically says:-
*privacy is a thing of the past
*you shouldn't get any money for your data
*instead it's a social good
*the needs of the many outweigh yours.
*China does it better.
In other words if you like or are part of an authoritarian elite/billionaire oligarch then this is best for you. As for the rest of us not so much but we might get a bit of convenience.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A leading behavioral economist shows how businesses can improve consumer thinking and decision-making on screens. The typical American office worker now spends the majority of his or her waking hours staring at a screen. In the 21st century, every business is a digital business, which is why it's so critical to understand how we think and behave online. Acclaimed behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi reveals a toolkit of interventions for the digital age. Using provocative case-studies and engaging exercises, Benartzi shows how businesses can update their nudges to help consumers make better decisions on screens.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the best book for listening
- By Shawn Kim on 01-21-17
By: Shlomo Benartzi, and others
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A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence
- How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
- By: Kartik Hosanagar
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives and how we can shape the way they impact us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Opens your mind towards Algorithms and AI
- By Gaurav Mendiratta on 03-27-19
By: Kartik Hosanagar
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Predictive Analytics
- The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
- By: Eric Siegel
- Narrated by: Nicolas D. Frantela
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 234
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 210
An introduction for everyone. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, this book - now in its revised and updated edition - serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. In this rich, fascinating, and surprisingly accessible introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics works and how it affects everyone every day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but...
- By Bernardo on 05-09-16
By: Eric Siegel
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Mobilized: An Insider's Guide to the Business and Future of Connected Technology
- By: SC Moatti
- Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Moatti - a technologist and industry insider - says these kinds of mobile apps adhere to three universal principles: They must have a simple design, enable the user to personalize them, and be continually improved by their makers through relentless attention to analytics. She uses examples from a host of great mobile app creators - Facebook, Yelp, Lyft, Tinder, Aerbnb, Trulia, WhatsApp, and more - to demonstrate how it's done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By D. Adewodu on 05-31-16
By: SC Moatti
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The Signals Are Talking
- By: Amy Webb
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4 out of 5 stars 113
How do you tell a real trend from the merely trendy? How, for example, will a technology - like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving cars, biohacking, bots, and the Internet of Things - affect us, our businesses, and workplaces? How will it eventually change the way we live, work, play, and think - and how should we prepare for it now? In The Signals Are Talking, noted futurist Amy Webb shows us how to analyze the "true signals" and land on the right side of disruption.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, awful narrator
- By Chelsea on 08-09-18
By: Amy Webb
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Technically Wrong
- Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good but not complete
- By Casey on 10-29-17
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The Smarter Screen
- Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior
- By: Shlomo Benartzi, Jonah Lehrer
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A leading behavioral economist shows how businesses can improve consumer thinking and decision-making on screens. The typical American office worker now spends the majority of his or her waking hours staring at a screen. In the 21st century, every business is a digital business, which is why it's so critical to understand how we think and behave online. Acclaimed behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi reveals a toolkit of interventions for the digital age. Using provocative case-studies and engaging exercises, Benartzi shows how businesses can update their nudges to help consumers make better decisions on screens.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the best book for listening
- By Shawn Kim on 01-21-17
By: Shlomo Benartzi, and others
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Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future
- By: Lasse Rouhiainen
- Narrated by: Rodger Paxton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Artificial intelligence is changing our world faster than we can imagine, and it will impact every area of our lives. And this is happening whether we like it or not. You might have heard that many jobs will be replaced by automation and robots, but did you also know that at the same time a huge number of new jobs will be created by AI? This book covers many fascinating and timely topics related to artificial intelligence, including: self-driving cars, robots, chatbots, and how AI will impact the job market, business processes, and entire industries, just to name a few.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Completely useless
- By Joe V on 03-29-19
By: Lasse Rouhiainen
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The Formula
- How Algorithms Solve all our Problems…and Create More
- By: Luke Dormehl
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 446
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 388
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Story4 out of 5 stars 387
A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms - what they are, why they’re such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they’re headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google's search algorithm is now a more closely guarded commercial secret than the recipe for Coca-Cola.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not about algorithms. Not an original book.
- By Landon Rordam on 12-02-14
By: Luke Dormehl
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Age of Context
- Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
- By: Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 511
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 429
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Story4 out of 5 stars 428
Social media is but one of five converging forces that promise to change virtually every aspect of our lives. You know these other forces already: mobile, data, sensors and location-based technology. Combined with social media they form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends. Armed with that knowledge our personal devices can anticipate what we'll need next and serve us better than a butler or an executive assistant. The resulting convergent superforce is so powerful that it is ushering in an era the authors call the Age of Context.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent, quick read
- By Brian Tamburello on 02-21-14
By: Robert Scoble, and others
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The Big Nine
- How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
- By: Amy Webb
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 449
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but Frustrating
- By Kathy on 03-26-19
By: Amy Webb
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The Filter Bubble
- What the Internet Is Hiding from You
- By: Eli Pariser
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 308
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 254
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Story4 out of 5 stars 250
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now in the top 3 best books I've ever read
- By Brian Esserlieu on 05-26-11
By: Eli Pariser
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The Mathematical Corporation
- Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
- By: Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data. This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great overview but superficial
- By Jan Madsen on 06-25-18
By: Josh Sullivan, and others
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Big Data in Practice
- How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book for managers
- By Capnbody on 01-08-18
By: Bernard Marr
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Prediction Machines
- The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,062
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,059
Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not sure what I was expecting, but underwhelmed
- By William J Brown on 09-27-18
By: Ajay Agrawal, and others
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
- Harnessing Our Digital Future
- By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,003
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 998
In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Both How AND Why for Techies
- By Dan Collins on 08-11-17
By: Erik Brynjolfsson, and others
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Internet of Things
- What You Need to Know About loT, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Business Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Our Future
- By: Neil Wilkins
- Narrated by: Brian R. Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
If you want to learn about the internet of things, then pay attention.... You were just woken up in the middle of the night by smart light bulbs in your house blasting at full power for no reason. Your bleary-eyed investigation shows they tried to download a firmware update and failed. At that moment, Alexa starts quietly whispering sweet nonsense to herself in the corner and Roomba starts slamming into the nearest wall. What do you do? Is your house haunted or have the machines finally started an uprising? Neither - it’s just another day in the IoT wonderland.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t waste your time
- By Josh on 03-19-23
By: Neil Wilkins
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Data Analytics: 4 Books in 1 - Bible of 4 Manuscipts
- Beginner's Guide + Tips and Tricks + Effective Strategies + Best Practices to Learn Data Analytics Efficiently
- By: Daniel Jones
- Narrated by: William Bahl
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
It doesn’t matter if your business has three employees or 300. You are likely generating far more information that you may realize and, certainly, far more than you are likely tracking effectively. Understanding what this data truly means starts with managing it successfully, which is where the process of data analytics comes into play. If you like the sound of putting your data to good use but aren’t quite sure what the ins and outs of data analytics entails, then Data Analytics: 4 Books in 1 - Bible of 4 Manuscipts is your perfect guide.
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5 out of 5 stars