Content tagged with "statistics"
wonderful book. presents a wire-ranging looking at the big data phenomenon, specifically on the technological and societal changes that have occurred to bring it about, and what this means to the future. things like: Our sample sizes are increasing. For many applications, we’re able to poll n = all….
This book could literally have been written in 25 pages. I find Taleb incredibly narcissistic. He doesn’t say anything in 1 word that could be said in 10, and his main goal seems to be on injecting himself into the text so we all know how smart he is. There’s a decent point here, but be prepared to…
This book approaches big data a little differently than most. It’s less about actually slicing and dicing statistics and is more about the organizational challenges to building an organization that runs on data above all else. The author discusses the cultural challenges – how to avoid the HiPPO…
An okay book which reveals how high-end digital marketing works. It was written by some guys that went to work for Salesforce when it acquired their company. This is not how you or me do marketing – this is how huge brands like Johnson and Johnson and General Motors do marketing. You know all that…
I’m still struggling to find the book I want around data science. I’ve learned that there are two levels: KNOWING data science DOING data science This book is about the second one. Make no mistake, this is a “statistical computation” manual. This shows you how to find statistical answers using…
i did not enjoy this book at all. i couldn’t figure out, for the life of me, who the target audience is. it appears to be one of three: People wanting a job in some statistical analysis field Business people trying to understand the same Actual statisticians It’s that last one that’s important,…
Hans Rosling is a legend in statistics and health research. He died a few years ago, but his YouTube videos and TED talks live on. He studied health and living trends around the world, and created a unique way to visualize them. His talks usually involve him pointing at bubbles which move around a…
A genuinely wonderful book. Extremely readable, very informative. He does a nice job of putting statistics in context, particularly around how they can be used to manipulate questions by simply framing issues differently. I’m normally skeptical of “For Dummies” style books that try to simplify…
You can read this book on three levels – Statistics is easy to screw up. Here are all the ways you can screw them up. Here is the actual math that proves it’s being screwed up. #1 is absolute – you cannot come away from this book without knowing that statistics is a messy science. I got about half…
Throughout this book, the author keeps trying to make the phrase “Super Cruncher/ing/ed” happen. I kept thinking back to the character in Mean Girls that said, “Gretchen, stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen.” It gets distracting. And annoying. It doesn’t help that it sounds…
An excellent look at how metrics can be used poorly to justify bad policies. Either we measure the wrong thing, measure it the wrong way, or – more often than not – game the measurement system so that we look better than we are. Want it to look like your city’s crime rate is going down? Stop taking…
