“If I work with a set of 200 random variables that are completely independent of each other, it is almost impossible not to find a high correlation of, say, 30%, but this correlation will be completely spurious. There are techniques for controlling selectivity (say, the Bonferroni correction), but even they do not stop attackers, just as regulation does not stop insiders who profit from the system. That's why, in the twelve-odd years since we decoded the human genome, geneticists have made no significant progress. I'm not saying that the data doesn't contain important information; the problem is that looking for it is like looking for a needle in a haystack." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: How to Profit from Chaos
Books to read
Actually, this is all interesting even if you're not trying to become a business analyst.
“Statistics and cats”, Vladimir Savelyev .
"Statistics: A Basic Course in Comics" by Grady Klein .
"Uncharted Territory: and Predict belize whatsapp resource the Future of Our Culture" by Jean-Baptiste Michel, Eretz Eiden .
"Naked Statistics: The Most Interesting Book About the Most Boring Science" by Charles Whelan .
"Financial Modeling in Excel" by Dmitry Zharov .
"Basic Course in Financial Modeling. Step-by-step instructions for creating a financial model in Microsoft Excel", Alexander Vladimirovich Finogenov . This book is accompanied by Excel files corresponding to each stage of the instructions.
"The Analytical Culture: From Data Mining to Business Results" by Carl Anderson .
"Everybody Lies. Search Engines, Big Data, and the Internet Know Everything About You." By Seth Stevens-Davidowitz.