Numbers Rule Your World
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like "Freakonomics, The Tipping Point," and "Super Crunchers," this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Fung takes readers inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect them every day.
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In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like "Freakonomics, The Tipping Point," and "Super Crunchers," this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Fung takes readers inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect them every day.
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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 world
In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers, 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!
Autoren-Porträt von Kaiser Fung
Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius Satellite Radio that is responsible for gleaning insight into customers and operational best practices. His blog, "Junk Charts", pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kaiser Fung
- 2010, 224 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 21,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
- ISBN-10: 0071626530
- ISBN-13: 9780071626538
Sprache:
Englisch
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