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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Teacher, data scientist, and blogger Allen B. Downey knows well that the human mind has both an innate ability to understand statistics and to be fooled by them. Statistically speaking, you will be less popular than your friends, arrive at a train station during a gap in service, and fail to find a running mate in a race. But more than surprising us, errors in statistical thinking, Downey shows, can have a huge impact. Statistical confusion has led...
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the plumbing like in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in the Mughal Empire? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ever ritual human sacrifice? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: cast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. In Figuring...
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T. Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Die-hard fanatics will enjoy this comprehensive collection of groundbreaking baseball strategies, analyses, statistics, and studies
"Picking up where Michael Lewis left off in Moneyball, he addresses the central questions of risk, reward, and value--on the field and off--and reveals what it takes to win." -John Thorn, editor of Total Baseball
This unique approach to understanding the "tried and true" methodologies of the game of baseball examines...
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Offers a series of clear, comprehensible techniques to help readers understand, process, and calculate their way through the vast amount of quantitative data that exists, presenting a series of real-world situations, ranging from stock market probability and interest rate percentages to political polls and sports scoring. Our society is churning out more numbers than ever before, whether in the form of spreadsheets, brokerage statements, survey results,...
