https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/ Just another WordPress site Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:20:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-2948 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 02:20:04 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-2948 […] love data as much as the next girl (see post, I Love Data). Even so, the author often exceeded my geekiness quota when she sent numeric ratings of her dates […]

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1259 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:55:44 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1259 […]  The Signal and The Noise is written by a statistician who created a model that does an impressive job predicting election winners. He includes lots of great graphs that make complex topics much easier to follow. In addition to learning about stats, you’ll learn all sorts of fun facts that people have discerned using statistical methods. […]

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1258 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:30:32 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1258 […] are tangentially related to research I do or have done, such as the surprisingly accessible books The Signal and the Noise on big data and The Emperor of All Maladies about […]

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1257 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:54:22 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1257 This sounds like a book you’d like. I look forward to hearing what you think of it

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1256 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:53:09 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1256 That sounds like an interesting job Especially if you like working with data, this is a great book to read.

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1255 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:56:22 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1255 I love data too, but from the point of view of querying a database, which is what my job is, basically. So I am a data analyst of some sort. I don’t know about predictions though. This does sound interesting.

]]> https://doingdeweydecimal.com/2013/06/13/i-love-data/#comment-1254 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:00:59 +0000 http://doingdeweydecimal.wordpress.com/?p=3368#comment-1254 I have to read this. I geek out so hard on information like this. Why haven’t I gotten to this yet? I could blame the crazy piles of books that I’m drowning in but there’s really no excuse. I’m off to put this on my list right this minute, thanks!!

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