The Art of Statistics
How to Learn from Data

When I am not writing witty and informative reviews on Goodreads/Amazon my day job is as a Government statistician. Therefore when offered the opportunity to read this book I thought it would be useful for me to do so. And I do believe it is helping me in my work. I am thinking more about how best t......more

Long ago I worked for a consulting firm and was assigned to look at the help desk tickets of a large government agency. They wanted to see if computer-related productivity losses could be reduced through better training, different procedures, or automated solutions to common problems. I analyzed thre......more

Pretty good, but there are a few chapters where the author basically goes "I'm not explaining this very well, but I know you won't get it so let's just move on". I also wish there were a few more "digital" / web analytics cases, but that's just because it would help me. Overall, an interesting and us......more

This amazing piece can somewhat be seen as the equivalent of Angrist&Pischke's "Mastering Metrics" for bread and butter statistical problems instead of intuitive econometrics. It covers everything one has to know when it comes to scientific studies that rely on data. All aspects and elements are tou......more

Statistika / tikimybės yra toks anti-intuityvus dalykas, kad skaityti apie ją – tai kaip žiūrėti „Mythbusters“, tik su daugiau matematikos. Tiesa, matematikos šioje knygoje nedaug, bet daug „realaus pasaulio“ pavyzdžių, kaip suprasti ir interpretuoti statistinius duomenis, „ką ištyrė britų mokslinin......more