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2 voters
Listopia > Laura Ludwig's votes on the list Data Literacy for Experts: Nonfiction Recommendations (9 Books)
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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"Unpacking the ways in which the world is misunderstood is an important step to helping us teach others how to use data to see fact rather than myth"
Laura
rated it 5 stars
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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"Opting to be a generalist rather than a deep expert can be advantageous, as this book highlights."
Laura
rated it 4 stars
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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"This book highlights the ways in which data collection can be biased - the topic here is women, but it would work for any other non-majority group. "
Laura
rated it 5 stars
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The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
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"Analyzing the world of bestsellers with NLP methods to characterize what makes a book good was a fun exploration of an application of data science methods"
Laura
rated it 5 stars
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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World
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"Learning how to understand people and recognizing where our technology may hinder that is an important exercise for building Insight Translation skills"
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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"Simplifying the language that we use to explain complicated subjects is a task that data experts must undertake in order to give non-experts access to the findings of analyses."
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Educated
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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