The Accidental Analyst: Show Your Data Who's Boss!

Do you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of data? Would you like to take control of your data and analysis, so you can quickly answer your business questions and take action? Do you want to confidently present results and provide solutions to your managers, colleagues and clients?

If so, The Accidental Analyst is for you! Although you didn’t plan for a career as a data analyst, you’re now in a position where you have to analyze data to be successful. For people like you, who haven’t had formal training in data analysis, we’ve developed a clear, step-by-step framework—The Seven C’s of Data Analysis—to guide you through the analytic process. This user-friendly framework includes many illustrated examples to demonstrate how to find answers to your real-world business questions.

Read this book for inspiration, ideas and confidence to begin tackling the problems you face at work. Keep it by your desk as a reference for data organization and analysis techniques. Throughout the book, we also explain expert tips, tricks, and shortcuts that collectively took us over fifty years of analyzing data to discover and understand!