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
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
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
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
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce s…
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
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
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed…
Shelve The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether on the printed page or the computer screen. The Whole Earth Re…
‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on the question of how we can make sense of the data of today to see where the world is going tomorrow.…
Shelve Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth
Consumer …
Shelve Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our size , whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the …
The surreal journey of a United States Marine to and from Iraq. Written and Illustrated by Terminal Lance creator, infantry Marine and Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte.
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking exploration of why most people make bad judgments, and how to control for that noise.
