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The Model Thinker
- What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
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 enough: 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 models - from linear regression to random walks and far beyond - that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's "many-model paradigm", which shows the listener 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.
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- Steve
- 12-07-22
Book had some good ideas, let down by equations
The concepts are indeed interesting for anyone with a little science or math background. The narration was clearly spoken, however oftentimes was jarring, when it came to equations, and there are a lot of them. I found other narrators succumb to these same problems of not knowing how to read a mathematical equation. Example, any function or expression with parentheses (such as a logarithm or a probability) was described instead as a 'times'. And at the same time, superfluous words were used when describing equations, when a technically minded person would say something like "log two to-the n" the narrator would say "log base two times n". Subscripts were read incorrectly as "base." You could say that a book with equations just doesn't lend itself to audio. It might be better if an author first converted the equations into plaintext so that a narrator can read as the author intended. I might recommend if it weren't for the incorrect narration of equations.
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- astro_bard
- 25-07-21
Grasp the complexity
Author did a great job by presenting some great concepts that will help you understand the world around you in a more accurate way.
Also, a great performance by the narrator! A bit annoying that he reads P(x) as “P times x”, but otherwise its a pleasure to listen to him.
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