The model thinker : what you need to know to make data work for you / Scott E. Page.
The model thinker : what you need to know to make data work for you / Scott E. Page.
The model thinker : what you need to know to make data work for you / Scott E. Page.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
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G 2020/1856
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The many-model thinker -- Why model? -- The science of many models -- Modeling human actors -- Normal distributions : the bell curve -- Power-law distributions : long tails -- Linear models -- Concavity and convexity -- Models of value and power -- Network models -- Broadcast, diffusion, and contagi...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us...
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The model thinker : what you need to know to make data work for you / Scott E. Page.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and index.
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©2018
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G 2020/1856
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74VKaDEZGrpb
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ISBN
9780465094622
DDC
001.4226
MMS ID
991024298710202626
