Analyzing information and acting accordingly is a key strategic goal of every business. But vast quantities of data are of little use if they are not structured and kept in such a way as to be readily accessible and applicable. Only optimally organized information can drive maximum productivity. Blissful Data is a reader-friendly book that reveals what it takes to achieve a state of perfect organization within the environment of a successful data warehouse. This timely book will help the reader: * understand how data evolves into information that drives better decision making * recognize the pitfalls, caused by people and politics, that lead to short-sighted solutions and long-term problems * manage data warehousing costs, performance, and expectations effectively * apply project management fundamentals to data warehouse endeavors. Blissful Data includes dozens of examples, as well as case studies illustrating successful, unsuccessful, and disastrous data warehouse strategies.

Blissful Data presents a practical new approach for storing and managing information for efficient access by all your organization's employees. The book allows you to reap the benefits - increased productivity, consistency of information, and better bottom-line results - that knowledge management's proponents have always championed but its implementation has seldom delivered.

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

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“This book is a splendid and valuable addition to this subject. The whole book is well written and I have no hesitation to recommend that this can be adapted as a textbook for graduate courses in Business Intelligence and Data Mining.” Dr. Edi Shivaji, Des Moines, Iowa “As a complete novice to this area just starting out on a MBA course I found the book incredibly useful and very easy to follow and understand. The concepts are clearly explained and make it an easy task to gain an understanding of the subject matter.” -- Mr. Craig Domoney, South Africa. Business Intelligence and Data Mining is a conversational and informative book in the exploding area of Business Analytics. Using this book, one can easily gain the intuition about the area, along with a solid toolset of major data mining techniques and platforms. This book can thus be gainfully used as a textbook for a college course. It is also short and accessible enough for a busy executive to become a quasi-expert in this area in a couple of hours. Every chapter begins with a case-let from the real world, and ends with a case study that runs across the chapters.

La bonne qualité des données est aujourd'hui la clé de voûte de toute organisation. La gestion et l'amélioration de cette qualité sont des tâches coûteuses et difficiles, mais néanmoins incontournables. Cet ouvrage propose une étude des différents outils et démarches qui assistent les spécialistes de la qualité et de la gouvernance des données. À travers les expériences de la communauté francophone animée par l'association ExQI (Excellence Qualité, Information), il présente, avec pédagogie et pragmatisme, un panorama des concepts-clés de la gestion de la qualité des données et leurs déclinaisons dans les entreprises (Business Intelligence, Data QualityManagement, Key Performance Indicator, Model Driven Engineering, Master Data Management, etc.). Des solutions théoriques et techniques performantes sont détaillées et de nombreux retours d'expérience permettent d'illustrer les bonnes pratiques à adopter. Mêlant contributions industrielles et académiques, cet ouvrage est un outil de référence en langue française sur la qualité et la gouvernance des données en entreprise.

Detox doesn't have to mean deprivation. This book contains recipes for more than 100 culinary creations that are simple yet so tasty cooks and detoxers won't know that they are behaving. Grouped by the thermal nature of the food and arranged by course, the recipes make menu-building a breeze.