"The practice of data analytics is changing and modernizing. Innovations in computation and machine learning are creating new opportunities for the data analyst: exposing previously unexplored data to scientific analysis, scaling tasks through automation, and allowing deeper and more accurate...

The present book provides an enterprise-wide guide for anyone interested in pursuing analytic methods in order to compete effectively. It supplements more general texts on statistics and data mining by providing an introduction from leading practitioners in business analytics and real case...

The challenge -- The ABMS paradigm -- All about agents -- The roots of ABMS -- The role of ABMS -- Discovering agents and agent behaviors -- Office ABMS -- How to do desktop ABMS -- How to do participatory ABMS -- How to do large-scale ABMS -- ABMS verification and validation -- A visual...