Philosophy, Ethics, and History of Statistics and Data Science

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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12)
The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12) 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics 3.84 avg rating — 17,590 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics
For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning
The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare 3.36 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Taming Of Chance
The Taming Of Chance 3.90 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,766 ratings
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference 3.98 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex 4.26 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Trust in Numbers
Trust in Numbers 3.87 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Values of Precision
Values of Precision 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics 3.91 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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The Probabilistic Revolution (Bradford Books) (2 Volumes)
The Probabilistic Revolution (Bradford Books) (2 Volumes) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Caution : Snake Oil! How Statistical Thinking Can Help Us Expose Misinformation about Our Health
Caution : Snake Oil! How Statistical Thinking Can Help Us Expose Misinformation about Our Health 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed volumes of essays in the humanities and social sciences, 171)
Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed volumes of essays in the humanities and social sciences, 171) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics 4.12 avg rating — 7,930 ratings
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care 3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves 3.10 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do 3.28 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy 3.76 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data 3.51 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day 3.49 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S.
Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends
Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends 3.78 avg rating — 2,941 ratings
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century 3.92 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data
Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data 3.54 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Significance Test Controversy: A Reader
The Significance Test Controversy: A Reader really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter
Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter 3.46 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, And Society)
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition, And Society) 3.72 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) 3.73 avg rating — 12,379 ratings
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A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed
A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture 3.72 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,315 ratings
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia 3.60 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Technology as Magic
Technology as Magic 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information 4.08 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health
Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health 3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age 3.76 avg rating — 4,623 ratings
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Data Feminism
Data Feminism 4.31 avg rating — 1,411 ratings
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After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age 3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings
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"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron
"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron 3.94 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul 3.52 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research
Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload 3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,679 ratings
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by: Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood 4.04 avg rating — 16,840 ratings