Business Analytics Resources

Kogod's Analytics main site and links (http://auapps.american.edu/~alberto/analytics)

• Analytics Textbooks:

  • Used in ITEC 620 Business Insights From Analytics
    Essentials of Business Analytics (http://www.amazon.com/dp/128518727X)

  • Used in ITEC 621 Predictive Analytics
    Introduction to Statistical Learning (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1461471370)
       Free PDF version from the authors (http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20First%20Printing.pdf)
       Author's web site with R code, data, etc. (http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/)
    
      Lectures and Videos from the ISLR book authors

  • Elements of Statistical Learning (www.amazon.com/dp/0387848576/)
       Free PDF version from the authors (http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/)

  • Applied Predictive Modeling (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1461468485) 

• R Books:

  • Used in ITEC 621 Predictive Analytics
    R for Everyone (www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFULELW/)

  • Introductory R (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BU34QTM/)

  • Machine Learning with R (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G9581JM/)

  • Social Media Mining with R (www.amazon.com/dp/B00J9B1IOI/)

• Other R Resources:
  
  R (http://www.r-project.org/) -- to download R
  R Studio (http://www.rstudio.com/) -- to download R Studio - a development environment for R, a must!!
  RSeek (http://www.rseek.org/) -- great search tool specific to R
  R Packages (http://cran.r.project.org/web/packages/) -- a list of all R packages (Comprehensive R Archive Network, CRAN)
  R Views (http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/) -- a view = group of packages for a specific function (e.g., graphics, econometrics)
  Data Camp (https://www.datacamp.com/) -- a great interactive site to learn R
  R Instructor (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/r-instructor/id527985215?mt=8) -- an iPhone/iPad app with R resourcess
  Shiny R Studio Gallery (http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/) -- a great R Studio gallery for data visualization
  R for Everyone (www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFULELW/) -- great book to get started on statistics in R

• Other Popular Analytics Books:

  • Moneyball (Lewis) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076XKTAA/)

  • Competing on Analytics (Davenport) (www.amazon.com/dp/B004OC072Q/)

  • Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave (Franks) (www.amazon.com/dp/B007NUQH4S/)

  • Big Data: A Revolution …. (www.amazon.com/dp/B009N08NKW/)

• SAS for academics (http://support.sas.com/learn/ap/index.html); SAS Enterprise Guide (http://support.sas.com/software/products/guide/index.html); SAS Enterprise Miner (http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/analytics/enterprise-miner.html) 

• SPSS for academics (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/academic/); SPSS Modeler (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/products/modeler/)

• Visual Analytics:

  • Tableu for academics (http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic)

  • Inforgraphics (https://infogr.am/)

  • IBM’s Many Eyes (http://www-969.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/)

  • Other free tools (http://www.computerworld.com/article/2506820/)

  • Teradata University Network (http://www.teradatauniversitynetwork.com/)