The Model Thinker
What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Basic Books · Print & ebook · November 27, 2018
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.
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- Genres
- Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Data Mining, Probability & Statistics
- Published
- Basic Books, November 27, 2018
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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.
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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.
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- practical model-thinking tools
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| Data Mining | 31% |
|---|---|
| Decision-Making & Problem Solving | 28% |
| Probability & Statistics | 23% |
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Publisher categories
- Economic Theory
- Data Science
- Data Modeling
- Probability & Statistics
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- Statistics for Social Science
- Authors
- Scott E. Page, Jamie Renell, Basic Books
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Published
- November 27, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Economic Theory