In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how data literacy is changing the world and gives you a better understanding of life’s biggest problems.
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Shelve The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to g…
Shelve Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaste…
Shelve The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy .
At its simplest, Bay…
Shelve Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged …
Shelve An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Python for Data Analysis is concerned with the nuts and bolts of manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching data in Python. It is also a practical, modern introduction to scientific computing i…
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic think…
Shelve Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." Th…
Shelve The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A series of Deep Learning breakthroughs have boosted the whole field of machine learning over the last decade. Now that machine learning is thriving, even programmers who know close to nothing about t…
Shelve Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow
Bullshit isn't what it used to be.Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.
It's increasingly difficult to know …
Shelve Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made …
Shelve Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'l…
Shelve Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Don't simply show your data — tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of…
Shelve Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories - we see them in the pap…
Shelve How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a w…
Shelve Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines
In the popular imagination, superhuman …
Shelve Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace.
In AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee…
Shelve AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Master the math needed to excel in data science, machine learning, and statistics. In this book author Thomas Nield guides you through areas like calculus, probability, linear algebra, and statistics …
Shelve Essential Math for Data Science: Take Control of Your Data with Fundamental Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from …
Shelve The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terri…
Shelve Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the l…
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art…
Shelve The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Six Easy Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman's landmark work, Lectu…
Shelve Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline…
Shelve Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make …
Shelve R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be…
Shelve Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie i…
Shelve Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
