Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart, (Paperback)

from arianr

Very interesting book about the ever-increasing role of statistics in a wide variety of fields. Ayres demonstrates how corporations are moving towards statistical analysis for all things from pricing of their products, to how much money a movie might make by evaluating the script alone. I found i...

from deldevries

Break out Anova and Regression - everything can be "crunched". Written for a general audience to make statistical analysis and blind, random studies interesting. Talks about differences discovered and models created as if they had great explanatory power (without more than a brief mention of omit...

from page.fault

Through extremely entertaining anecdotes and stories, Ayres provides a wonderful glimpse at some of the ways in which statistics and big data improve our ability to make intelligent decisions. Ayres tends to stay far away from the actual math or technical aspects and simply focuses on the concept...

from feistyscot

This is a terrific book with practical implications on almost every page. It jibes with my naturalist sympathies---it says to hell with intuition and arm chair analysis: put it to the empirical test. He's surprisingly unself-conscious, though, about the sophisticated objections to reliance on ran...

from skraft001

Thoroughly enjoyed this book -- it was a quick read at just over 200 pages (before the end notes kicked in). Some basic statistical concepts are provided for the statistically challenged but that doesn't detract to any large degreee from sharing of the various Super Cruncher projects that have ta...