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Numbers Rule Your World
| Titel: | Numbers Rule Your World |
| Kategorien: | Sales, Networking and Business Development |
| BuchID: | 87 |
| Autor: | Kaiser Fung |
| ISBN-10(13): | 9780071626538 |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2017-08-02 |
| Number of pages: | 0 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Product Description WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU LL WIN THE LOTTERY How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World Who decides that standardized tests are fair Why do highway engineers build slow moving ramps What does it mean statistically to be an Average Joe NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLDIn the popular tradition of eye opening bestsellers like Freakonomics The Tipping Point and Super Crunchers this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day in every way These are the statistics that rule your life your job your commute your vacation your food your health your money and your success This is how engineers calculate your quality of living how corporations determine your needs and how politicians estimate your opinions These are the numbers you never think about even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life What you learn may surprise you amuse you or even enrage you But there s one thing you won t be able to deny Numbers Rule Your World An easy read with a big benefit 151 Fareed Zakaria CNN For those who have anxiety about how organization data mining is impacting their world Kaiser Fung pulls back the curtain to reveal the good and the bad of predictive analytics 151 Ian Ayres Yale professor and author of Super Crunchers Why Thinking By Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart A book that engages us with stories that a journalist would write the compelling stories behind the stories as illuminated by the numbers and the dynamics that the numbers reveal 151 John Sall Executive Vice President SAS Institute Little did I suspect when I picked up Kaiser Fung s book that I would become so entranced by it an illuminating and accessible exploration of the power of statistical analysis for those of us who have no prior training in a field that he explores so ably 151 Peter Clarke author of |