num_pages: 448
description: Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize apply and most importantly understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.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 we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker  social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical statistical and computational modelsfrom linear regression to random walks and far beyondthat can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's many-model paradigm which shows the reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data leading to wiser choices more accurate predictions and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people students scientists pollsters and bloggers to make them better clearer thinkers able to leverage data and information to their advantage.
language: English
title: The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
publisher: Basic Books