The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Paperback 464 pages English March 16, 2021
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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja. From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models--from linear regression to random walks and far beyond--that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's "many-model paradigm," which shows the reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to leverage data and information to their advantage.
- Author:
- Scott E. Page
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication Date:
- March 16, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 464 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1541675711
- ISBN-13:
- 9781541675711