Pamela Baker - Decision Intelligence For Dummies

10 Index

11 About the Book Author

12 Connect with Dummies

13 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 15TABLE 15-1: The Four Structured Decision-Making Models

1 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: How fast are these spinning again?

2 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: The inverted V.

3 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Is a picture always worth a thousand words?

4 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Machine learning has trouble accurately recognizing objects among s...FIGURE 9-2: Feast, an open source feature store.FIGURE 9-3: Comparing what is with what could be.

5 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Looking at RapidMiner, a data science software platform.

6 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: A set of PowerPoint decision tree templates.FIGURE 12-2: A Microsoft Excel SWOT template.

7 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Causal – Scenarios, as shown in the Google Workspace Marketplace.FIGURE 14-2: The home of what-if on the Excel Ribbon.FIGURE 14-3: The Excel Scenario Manager Wizard.FIGURE 14-4: The WhatIf add-in, as shown in Google Workspace Marketplace.FIGURE 14-5: Excel's Goal Seek feature.FIGURE 14-6: The Goal Seek add-in, as shown in Google Workspace Marketplace.

8 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: The Coggle brainstorming tool.FIGURE 15-2: Brainpartner's causal loop tool.FIGURE 15-3: Visme's structural thinking tool.

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