A step-by-step guide to transforming data into stakeholder buy-in and decisive action

Driving Buy-In, by data storytelling veteran Mico Yuk-who has trained over 20,000 data professionals at Fortune 500 companies including Shell, Nestle, and Zoom-provides a practical guide for professionals who craft data visualizations and presentations that light a fire under decision-makers. It shows how to transform insights into real-world action. Eighty-eight percent of insights never influence a decision. This book fixes that.

Yuk introduces the Buy-In Method (TM), a two-pillar system for turning information into action - grounded in behavioral science and neuroscience research. Pillar 1, the Data Storytelling Framework (TM) (Discover, Define, Design, and Deliver), turns data into a story the brain is wired to respond to. Pillar 2, the Three Signs of Influence (Clarity, Buy-In, and Action), reveals in real time whether your message is landing and exactly where stakeholders are in the decision process. Rather than focusing on technical skills or visual design, this book teaches the often-overlooked skill of reading human behavior.

You'll learn:

• How to ask the right questions that uncover the real problem - move beyond vague requests and endless scope creep to get to the truth
• How to transform the way you communicate with stakeholders or executives - translate and present technical findings so anyone can understand and act on them
• How to build stories that drive action - using the same structure behind Hollywood blockbusters
• How to read any room using the Three Signs of Influence (Clarity, Buy-In, Action) - no more guessing if stakeholders will act on your insights
• Why human influence is your competitive advantage - in the AI era, anyone can generate insights, but driving stakeholder buy-in is what makes you irreplaceable

This book is for professionals who present data to influence stakeholders and accelerate decisions: analysts, data scientists, BI teams, product managers, consultants, AI/ML professionals, and executives. It's an expert guide in data communication for professionals who want to know exactly what works, what doesn't, and how to design and deliver presentations that will get buy-in from the people who make decisions. Go from order-taker to decision driver.

In The Power of Remainder, Celine Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and marginality in Myanmar. Focusing on the Buddhist communities of Rakhine, she explores their rich and diverse "medical repertoire" and argues that this repertoire reflects an intricate interplay of biological, social, cosmological, and political forces.

Based on thirty months of fieldwork between 2004 and 2019, this ethnographic study reveals the interconnectedness between plurality, positionality, and efficacy. The necessity for diverse healing approaches is driven not only by the desire to live and thrive, but also by the categorizations and hierarchies imposed on medical practices, knowledge, and people. These categorizations-shaped by governance and nation-building-affect how healers deploy resources and how users access them, ultimately influencing their effectiveness. At the heart of this work lies the innovative concept of "remainder," which reimagines healing as a process of navigating what is left behind, left out, or left unresolved. Far from being merely constraining, these remainders offer a creative space for resilience, adaptability, and hope. This duality-where marginalization gives rise to innovation-positions The Power of Remainder as a bold challenge to conventional understandings of healing.

By bridging religious studies and medical anthropology, Coderey dismantles traditional disciplinary silos, showing how the boundaries of medicine and Buddhism are locally constructed, negotiated, and transcended, reflecting and affecting values and therapeutic actions. The Power of Remainder redefines the frameworks through which we view health, agency, and the possibilities of healing.

This book places an emphasis upon statistical methodology, data interpretation, and futureproofing with the intention of advancing statistics for the environment, ecology, and environmental health, in addition to environmental theory and practice, via the application of reliable statistics.

With a focus on advances in statistical methodology and application within the environmental sciences, the overarching purpose of this volume is to illuminate current trends, stimulate a focus on, and connect multidisciplinary domains originating from and within statistical analysis, development, and research. Given that the contributions consist of current improvements and new innovations in climate and environmental science research that are based on statistical theory, researchers can derive inspiration for future advancements or similar analyses on other environmental data.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, this book is organized into three parts: Part I on Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Part II on Directional Statistics, and Part III on Spatial and Temporal Modeling. Primarily intended as a reference book for academic researchers and graduate-level students in statistics as well as multidisciplinary domains, the chapters reflect a shared commitment to advancing methodological rigor while addressing real-world environmental concerns. They illustrate how environmental complexity drives the evolution of statistical thinking-and how statistical insight, in turn, informs meaningful action.

Key Features

• Emphasizes the ongoing necessity to progress basic statistical theory and explores its relevance to environmental research
• Employs multidisciplinary approaches and applications, appealing to a broader audience beyond solely theoretical statistics
• Enhances the collective understanding of the ecosystem's diverse perspectives to ensure the welfare of present and future generations
• Written by renowned subject matter experts and researchers, making it appealing to scholars from diverse fields
• The statistical framework is not limited to a single methodology based on data complexity but promotes different techniques

This book examines the role of strategic risk management (SRM) in the transformation of banks and their customers towards more sustainable business practices. Banks play a particularly important role in this transformation because they have been tasked with redirecting capital flows to sustainable investments.

This book has two inter-related aims: to provide the reader with an analysis of the challenges associated with implementing strategic risk management as discussed in the existing literature, as well as to conduct an empirical investigation into SRM implementation in a large European bank headquartered in the Nordic region. The book consists of seven chapters. Chapters 1-3 introduce the main concepts, research questions, and theoretical framework. Chapters 4-6 describe the integration challenges associated with SRM in an empirical context, that is, Nordbank. Finally, Chapter 7 presents key insights and avenues for future research.

The book will benefit readers in a variety of ways, including providing an overview of the existing literature, the latest developments in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulation, and in-depth empirical insights into an organisation and its management who are currently implementing SRM as part of their sustainable transformation. It is intended for scholars and students in the business and management disciplines, as well as the sub-fields of accounting, finance, and strategic management.

Developing Ports as Business Ecosystems provides professionals in freight transport and maritime logistics, and specifically the ports industry, with a better conceptual understanding of the ports industry. It includes key insights and best practices for port management and development and an overview of new trends and developments relevant to developing winning strategies.

This second edition explains how a rapidly changing energy landscape and the advancing transition toward sustainability have deeply impacted port development in recent years. It provides an even more coherent, comprehensive contribution to port management, development and policies. The book uniquely features in-depth explanations of the port as an ecosystem, port governance and port policy choices, including public financing of ports. The new edition presents further developed analysis on the changing port landscape and the opportunities for business development in ports.

This book will broaden professionals' conceptual understanding of the ports industry and provide insights into the latest developments in this area. For students, this book provides an industry-focused and non-technical "essential reading" for gaining a deep understanding of the ports industry.

As the second of two companion volumes, this book advances the study of language and health by focusing on communication in action. The volume showcases applications of health communication in real contexts and illustrates how linguistics research and practice can address health inequalities across global contexts.

Building on the foundations in Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health Communication: Healthcare, Language, and Inclusivity, Volume 1, this volume examines scientific and institutional discourses, community health campaigns, and health education initiatives, while addressing topics such as AI technologies, gender-inclusive language, graphic medicine, and youth health education. The contributors employ a range of linguistics and health communication methods, including corpus-assisted discourse analysis, multimodal and narrative approaches, and participatory research. Contributions include cross-cultural case studies, community-based projects, and innovative applications of machine learning. The volume emphasizes how strategies of inclusive communication can help counter structural barriers and promote more equitable practices.

Together with Volume 1, this is an essential resource for academics working in linguistics and discourse studies applied to healthcare, as well as students seeking to understand how language both reflects and transforms health inequalities, while providing globally relevant perspectives and practical tools for effective healthcare communication.

In mainstream public economics, it is tacitly implied that all facets of the public sector can be managed efficiently and fairly by any type of government. By contrast, this book argues that only a democratic government can meet the conditions of legitimacy and economic efficiency, which are consistent with freedom and social justice.

The book outlines the fundamental elements and methods of public economics and exposes the constraints of standard public economics in relation to the legitimacy of government. The main goal of the book is to draw a clear demarcation line between democratic states and undemocratic states and to spell out clearly the essential place of the state in the economy. It is argued that alongside adherence to the rule of law, one of the core functions of a democratic state is its economic function. Multifaceted economic obligations are the indispensable commitment of a democratic state. Without these fundamental obligations, a state cannot fulfil its requirements for being classified as democratic. As the book makes clear, there is an inextricable linkage between the democratic state, democracy, rule of law, equity, and economic efficiency.

This book makes a significant contribution to the field of public economics. It provides invaluable reading for professionals working in the public sector and for scholars and readers of public economics, political economy, public finance, public policy, public administration, and government studies.

This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the global esports industry by examining its significance in the context of global geopolitics and economics.

As perhaps the most rapidly growing sector of the sports and entertainment industry worldwide, esports is now both a glittering prize and a powerful tool for sporting organisations, international business, and national and regional governments, and this book critically examines its transformative potential and structural complexities. Presenting a series of contemporary case studies alongside evidence-based analysis, the book examines how esports intersect with global economic, political, cultural, and organisational dynamics. This book moves beyond abstract theories to provide powerful insights, from both industry professionals and academics, into the roles and functions of esports within global power structures. It explores key themes in geopolitical economy - including global economic interests, soft power, cultural diplomacy, organisational strategy, and socio-political dynamics - and in sport and gaming studies, including the rapid development of esports in the MENA region, driven by strategic investment from countries like Saudi Arabia; the current dominance of esports in North America and Asia founded on more advanced ecosystems, innovation and leadership; and regulatory and cultural debates in Europe.

Showcasing cutting-edge research and the most important current debates, topics and issues, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in esports, gaming, the politics or economics of sport, geopolitics, diplomacy or international business.

Addressing the big questions to advance the debate on good governance for sustainable development, this book asks: what is governance for sustainable development? What makes governance 'good'? And what are the factors that inhibit good governance?

With contributions from experts in Development Studies, Economics, Geography, Management, Environmental Science, Politics, and Public Policy, this interdisciplinary volume critically engages with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) whilst reflecting on the inherently political nature of good governance. Chapters draw on cases from a range of geographical contexts (local, national, supranational, and global) and diverse policy areas, including global environmental and labour governance, gender equality, decolonial governance in the Coral Triangle, supranational governance in the EU, and resource governance in the car industry. By doing so, this book provides an overview of the current challenges and possibilities for achieving good governance and sustainable development, and calls for a return to the critical spirit of the original concept of good governance, to reclaim it as the radical idea it was intended to be.

This book will act as an insightful and valuable guide for academics, scholars, and students of Development Studies, Economics, Politics, Environmental Science, Geography, and Management, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in sustainable development.

In the face of deglobalisation, decreased competitiveness, and the lack of innovation in the European Union (EU) countries, national development institutions, due to their unique mandates and operational capabilities, have emerged as an effective tool in the hands of governments on the path to long-term sustainable economic growth. This book analyses the contemporary economic situation in the selected EU countries, diagnosing key structural challenges and evaluating the capacity of development institutions to address them. It delineates the mechanisms employed to support economies through the system of development institutions in the EU.

The book offers a comprehensive examination of the strategies and policies that these institutions apply and an overview of the support instruments they make available to the state. Further, it presents a comparison of the activities of selected development institutions and examines their efficiency, delivering an understanding of the challenges and opportunities, such as recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic or building resilience against modern security threats and fostering the EU's strategic autonomy. This monograph contributes to the ongoing academic discourse by offering a distinct perspective on development institutions, differentiated by its rigorous focus on the European context rather than general global trends, and grounded in robust empirical data and recent research. Additionally, it includes practical economic policy recommendations and case studies to inspire further research.

Bridging the gap between economic theory and banking practice, this volume is an essential resource for academics in macroeconomics and public finance, as well as policymakers shaping the future of the European financial architecture.

Algorithmic Trading via AI/Machine Learning with R aims to demonstrate how algorithmic trading can empower retail traders to compete more effectively in markets long dominated by institutional giants. By translating advanced techniques into practical, systematic strategies, the book shows how automation, disciplined risk management, and data-driven decision making can help individuals filter out market noise, avoid manipulation, and exploit opportunities that once belonged exclusively to large firms.

The book's purpose is to give you a framework where R is not just a statistical environment, but a trading laboratory and execution engine. Every chapter includes reproducible examples you can extend into your own practice and research pipeline. By the end, you will not merely understand algorithmic trading-you will have built, tested, and connected live strategies to market data. At its core, it demonstrates how R-a language renowned for statistical computing-can be transformed into a complete research and execution platform for trading.

This book is aimed at anyone who wants to learn, or use R, for AI/Machine Learning and algorithmic trading. It is also for individuals doing or interested in doing securities research and financial systems development and for retail traders who may wish to use R to gain an algorithmic trading edge.

Key Features:

• Follows a clearly defined, pedagogical structure that builds from foundational R tools to full automation and integration with APIs.
• Argues that while retail traders cannot match Wall Street's scale, they can use algorithms to level the playing field-building consistency, resilience, and an edge in a market designed to favor the powerful.
• All the book's scripts can be accessed on the book's GitHub branch.
• The QuantRoom YouTube channel (@quantroom) provides video tutorials and scripts that complement the book's content showcasing real-time problem-solving.
• Delivers a more engaging and accessible way to master algorithmic trading using R and the Schwab Trader API.
• The Appendix expands the book's scope beyond R by presenting a side-by-side comparison between the C++ TWS API and the IBrokers R interface, illustrating how high-level R commands map directly to their low-level C++ counterparts.

An insider's original take on how global currency markets operate in the real world

In How Currency Markets Work, a veteran currency trader and a geopolitical risk analyst deliver a comprehensive and street-smart guide for understanding currency markets. The authors combine insights from the worlds of trading, economics, and geopolitics to create an eye-opening and original new take on how currency prices are determined.

This book bridges the gap between how currency markets are taught and how they actually trade, using character-driven narratives built on real-world market events and data to explain currency trading successes and failures in intuitive and practical ways.

Inside the book:

• Actionable tools and tested strategies for currency trading you can apply immediately to improve your returns and your portfolio's risk profile
• Clear real-world examples of how geopolitical events, wars, and political shifts impact currency values
• Profiles of the speculators, corporate hedgers, and central banks whose interplay shapes exchange rates
• Advanced strategies for options, volatility trading, and exploiting mathematical relationships in currency markets

A deeply insightful and accessible exploration of a much-discussed topic, How Currency Markets Work is a powerful new resource for academics, researchers, hedge fund managers, bank traders, policymakers, and practicing and aspiring forex traders.

Chinese Idioms provides a theoretical framework for understanding idioms in the Chinese language, tracing their origins and analyzing their linguistic evolution.

This work broadens the definition of idioms to encompass fixed phrases comprising two or more characters, thereby distinguishing them from common sayings and proverbs. Integrating linguistic theories with traditional textual research, it examines the structural features and practical value of idioms from the perspectives of semantic evolution, phonetic characteristics, and real-world application. It also cautions against confusing later usage with original sources. Through detailed case studies comparing the prevalent four-character pattern with atypical, shorter phrases, the book unveils the morphological diversity and evolutionary intricacy of Chinese idiomatic expressions.

Grounded in extensive examples from classical texts, this work will serve scholars and students of Chinese linguistics, as well as Chinese language learners, offering an analytical system that balances rigorous academic inquiry with practical usage.

This book sets out a critical sociological approach to 'personalised medicine' (PM), not only highlighting its limitations and flaws but also emphasising its hopeful potentialities for a better medicine in the future.

Bringing together perspectives from science and technology studies, medical sociology, law, and bioethics, this book traces PM from its historical roots in disease classification and predictive genetics to its data-driven present of digital infrastructures, algorithmic prediction, and precision therapeutics. Across seven chapters, it explores how measurement, classification, and datafication shape medical knowledge; how infrastructures and platforms distribute benefits and risks; how publics are imagined as patients, consumers, and citizens; and how privacy, access, and equity are negotiated in global health systems. This book concludes by outlining possible futures grounded in solidarity, patient-centred care, and democratic innovation - offering practical ways to shift PM from a privilege for the few to a shared public good.

Written for scholars and practitioners in science and technology studies, sociology of medicine, health policy, and bioethics, as well as for clinicians and policymakers, this book will engage readers seeking to understand - and reshape - the social futures of data-intensive healthcare. It will also be useful for policy makers debating the implementation of different PM projects in local or national healthcare systems.

This book examines different aspects of public transport design and its relationship to passenger experiences, reflecting the growing concern with approaching mobility through the lens of the arts and humanities and social sciences.

The chapters in this book explore how transport environments, mobility infrastructures, and embodied movement practices have been shaped and 'designed' by a whole host of experts, professionals and political actors for different ends. Examples focus on a range of transport modes in different parts of the world, including buses in urban Chile, underground metro railways in China and the UK, and railways in Sweden and Japan. The book examines the role of architecture and design features in shaping, affording and hindering passenger flows, behaviour and experience, resulting in infrastructures which may include or exclude certain groups of passengers in different ways.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in geography, urban planning, architecture, design studies, sociology, and mobility studies. It will also appeal to practitioners in transport planning, urban design, and public policy who are concerned with creating more inclusive and effective mobility infrastructures.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.

Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms: Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem provides an important overview into the history, drivers and consequences of drug injecting, what sustains it and why problems continue to surprise clinicians, policy-makers and politicians. It explores the gritty reality of the harms caused by injecting drugs, and puts the medical, psychiatric and social damage in a contemporary context. Among the many harms resulting from substance use are viral and bacterial epidemics and devastating loss of life. Although no simple solutions are possible, by engaging with the consequences of drug use, the book aims to understand the causes, to prevent worse outcomes.

Drawing on the author's in-depth experiences at the forefront of practice, policy and research in this field, the book provides an extended case study examining drug injecting and the HIV crisis in the Scottish health system. The book shows how trying to get to grips with the "drug problem" is complicated by confusing definitions of what is a drug and where the separation lies between the benefits and harms, Culture and politics, which vary across nations, determine legal status, and consequently penalties and acceptability. In grappling with these complexities, the book aims to develop a strong theoretical framework which examines how substance use is socially constructed within public health policy and practice.

The book should be essential reading for health, medicine and social care students and those with an interest in the consequences of illicit substance use including those studying law, humanities, business and politics. It will also be informative for professionals and policy-makers in the criminal justice, health and education sectors and those responsible for political influence and planning in the public realm. Anyone who thinks that substance use will not throw up new problems and challenges for the health and politics affecting us all in the future just has to consider the roller coaster of the last six decades.