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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
by:
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.91 avg rating β 42,044 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
by:
Darrell Huff
3.84 avg rating β 17,590 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,316 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by:
Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating β 34,099 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by:
Barry Schwartz
3.83 avg rating β 36,353 ratings
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by:
Jordan Ellenberg
3.95 avg rating β 20,875 ratings
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How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts
by:
David Ropeik
3.71 avg rating β 206 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
by:
Darrell Huff
3.84 avg rating β 17,590 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
by:
Larry Gonick
3.91 avg rating β 1,535 ratings
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by:
Judea Pearl
3.94 avg rating β 6,382 ratings
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
by:
Aubrey Clayton
4.25 avg rating β 516 ratings
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
by:
Charles Wheelan
4.03 avg rating β 19,280 ratings
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by:
Charles Wheelan
3.96 avg rating β 14,835 ratings
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by:
Philip E. Tetlock
4.08 avg rating β 21,614 ratings
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by:
Charles Perrow
4.04 avg rating β 675 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,884 ratings
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Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
by:
Lawrence Weinstein
3.73 avg rating β 422 ratings
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Humanizing Big Data: Marketing at the Meeting of Data, Social Science & Consumer Insight
by:
Colin Strong
3.81 avg rating β 43 ratings
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A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
by:
Kartik Hosanagar
3.86 avg rating β 442 ratings
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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
by:
Ron Kohavi
4.39 avg rating β 603 ratings
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by:
Christian Rudder
3.73 avg rating β 12,379 ratings
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Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
by:
Emanuel Derman
3.42 avg rating β 479 ratings
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Statistical Models: Theory and Practice
by:
David Freedman
4.21 avg rating β 75 ratings
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Data Feminism
by:
Catherine DβIgnazio
4.31 avg rating β 1,411 ratings
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Fooled By Randomness & The Black Swan: Two Books In One
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.16 avg rating β 282 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.08 avg rating β 69,687 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.96 avg rating β 119,255 ratings
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by:
Ian Ayres
3.72 avg rating β 5,974 ratings
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Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by:
Ajay Agrawal
4.23 avg rating β 7,153 ratings
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Measurement: A Very Short Introduction
by:
David J. Hand
3.71 avg rating β 63 ratings
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
by:
David J. Hand
3.73 avg rating β 1,785 ratings
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Statistics (Brief Insights)
by:
David J. Hand
3.55 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters
by:
David J. Hand
3.55 avg rating β 245 ratings
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Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance
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Stephen M. Stigler
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900
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Stephen M. Stigler
4.12 avg rating β 104 ratings
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The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
by:
Stephen M. Stigler
3.69 avg rating β 498 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating β 24,070 ratings
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Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference (ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society)
by:
David S. Salsburg
3.61 avg rating β 31 ratings
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
by:
David Salsburg
3.92 avg rating β 1,975 ratings
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by:
Nate Silver
3.67 avg rating β 4,556 ratings
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong
by:
Jonah Keri
4.01 avg rating β 3,771 ratings
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
by:
David Spiegelhalter
4.16 avg rating β 5,374 ratings
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Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.50 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Mathematics and Humor
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.42 avg rating β 158 ratings
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A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.51 avg rating β 165 ratings
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh
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John Allen Paulos
3.49 avg rating β 242 ratings
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Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.36 avg rating β 223 ratings
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Beyond Numeracy
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.85 avg rating β 482 ratings
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A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.45 avg rating β 812 ratings
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Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.66 avg rating β 2,249 ratings
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.78 avg rating β 5,272 ratings
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.59 avg rating β 1,001 ratings
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Antifragile
by:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( NA XI MU NI GU LA SI TA LE BU )
4.10 avg rating β 56,005 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.19 avg rating β 845,852 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕs and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating β 9,905 ratings
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Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidence
by:
Joseph Mazur
3.08 avg rating β 621 ratings
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The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
by:
Steven H. Strogatz
4.06 avg rating β 8,570 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by:
Edwin A. Abbott
3.81 avg rating β 75,635 ratings
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GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.29 avg rating β 51,684 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by:
Caroline Criado PΓ©rez
4.34 avg rating β 156,657 ratings
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Occupy Finance
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Alternative Banking/Occupy Wall Street
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
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On Being a Data Skeptic
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.84 avg rating β 178 ratings
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.40 avg rating β 1,246 ratings