Effective Data Analysis: Hard and soft skills to accelerate your career

by Mona Khalil

Effective Data Analysis teaches you to deliver productive data science in business and research. It assumes you’ve mastered the basics and supports you with best practices normally learned through trial-and-error or careful mentorship. Author Mona Khalil shares her expertise through visuals, cartoons, examples from across industries, and even a few laugh-out-loud jokes.

You’ll start with asking the right questions of your stakeholders and turning often-vague requirements into realistic data pipelines. Once you’ve mastered the people skills, you’ll move on to the technical bits—including defining your metrics, testing, and more. Build out your analyst’s toolbox with techniques for statistical modeling, sourcing your data, automation, and more. Finally, finish up with realistic advice on developing a data-informed organizational culture that will ensure your skills are delivering to their full potential.

416 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2025

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting dive into the world of data analytics and back into statistics. Actually the framing of all the stuff that I learned during school are statistical tests to validate numbers works perfectly for me, never seen it like that.

The book itself is a great read, lots of examples with real data, code and understandable explanations. I got some nice ideas and further reads from this book, so if you are interested in this topic grab a copy.