Data & Statistics

Shows information professionals how to leverage their skills and training to master emerging tools, techniques, and vocabulary; create mission-critical Big Data research deliverables; and discover rewarding new career opportunities by embracing their inner Data Scientist.

Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data? Can you understand it? Yes. Harkness writes comedy, not computer code. Starting with the basics - what IS data? And what makes it big? Includes how people are using big data today (science, smart cities, business, politics, self-quantification, Internet of Things). Contains puns, unlikely stories, engaging people, inspiring feats, and thought-provoking dilemmas.

A resource for special educators, general educators, and paraprofessionals, this toolkit will help you become a "classroom detective" who collects the right data, and analyzes it skillfully. Discover data collection techniques used by real teachers, with strategies and shortcuts developed through the author's extensive teaching and consulting work. Includes classroom examples, quizzes, definitions of key terms, and reproducible forms and tools.

Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them. Statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter. We need to understand what statistics mean and how they can improve our lives -- they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers. In The Data Detective, Harford uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, this is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior

The Data Game introduces the collection, use, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the national economy, wealth, income and poverty, labor, business, government, and public opinion polling. The concluding chapter is devoted to the common problem of ambiguity in social science statistics.

Book that focuses on the context of diversity, illustrated through the use of real data in examples from contemporary social issues. Understand the “so what” of statistics. Interesting examples and exercises. Companion website: https://edge.sagepub.com/ssdsess3e

Lawson uses scientific research and interesting examples to explain how statistical concepts can be applied to everyday decisions and judgements. Practical, user-friendly discussion of topics make the connections between statistical concepts and the work done in psychology.

Explore three defining challenges that school teams face when gathering, interpreting, and utilizing school data. Complete with survey questions for efficient data collection, group work structures, strategies, and tools--along with essential definitions and descriptions of data types--this compelling guide will help you confront data obstacles and turn struggling committees into powerful communities of learners.

This book shows how a powerful new endeavor--the mathematical modeling of humanity--stands to transform everyone's daily life. (Author's website: https://thenumerati.net/)