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Last week I wrote about the increasing demand for analytically-skilled, sophisticated statisticians by all sorts of companies looking to take advantage of our increasingly data-driven world. This past Wednesday, the New York Times published another piece yet again highlighting this trend: As suggested by Daniel Pink’s assertions on the rise of a right-brained working elite, [...]
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The NY Times had a great article yesterday profiling the increasing fortunes for advanced statisticians. As the world has become more data-driven and flush with raw numbers, the need to derive sophisticated insights from all that data has increased. Data does not speak for itself: The new breed of statisticians tackle that problem. They use [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
