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In the latest issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson pens a great piece which echoes a sentiment I’ve touched on before: in a data-driven world it is critical that all citizens have at least a basic literacy in statistics. Now and in the future, we will have unprecedented access to voluminous amounts of data. The analysis of this [...]
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Correlation doesn’t always equal causation, but often correlation can serve as a signal. The collection and analysis of data in some areas of the world is messy and slow. Often times this means the data can only tells us what happened in the past. What we would ideally like is a snapshot of events and [...]
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David Anderegg thinks we should no longer use the terms ‘geek’ and ‘nerd’: [Anderegg] says that merely mentioning terms like nerd or geek serves to perpetuate the stereotype. The words are damaging, much like racial epithets, he says, and should be avoided. Why? [Because] math, science and computer science, Dr. Anderegg said, are courses that [...]
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That’s one way to interpret Zack Greinke’s claiming of the award for 2009: It was not surprising that Greinke won, since his earned run average, 2.16, was the lowest in the American League since 2000. But his decisive margin of victory over Seattle’s Felix Hernandez was a sign that voters overlooked his deficiency in another [...]
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Ana Andjelic channels my thoughts on data- and fact-based decision making in an interesting post on ad campaigns: How can we then decide that a campaign was “better” than another one? We rarely look at a campaign data – partly because the actual metrics data is proprietary and not available to anyone beyond walls of [...]
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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
