Thinking Clearly with Data (eBook)

A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis

Anthony Fowler, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21501-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniquesAn introduction to data science or statistics shouldn't involve proving complex theorems or memorizing obscure terms and formulas, but that is exactly what most introductory quantitative textbooks emphasize. In contrast, Thinking Clearly with Data focuses, first and foremost, on critical thinking and conceptual understanding in order to teach students how to be better consumers and analysts of the kinds of quantitative information and arguments that they will encounter throughout their lives.Among much else, the book teaches how to assess whether an observed relationship in data reflects a genuine relationship in the world and, if so, whether it is causal; how to make the most informative comparisons for answering questions; what questions to ask others who are making arguments using quantitative evidence; which statistics are particularly informative or misleading; how quantitative evidence should and shouldn't influence decision-making; and how to make better decisions by using moral values as well as data. Filled with real-world examples, the book shows how its thinking tools apply to problems in a wide variety of subjects, including elections, civil conflict, crime, terrorism, financial crises, health care, sports, music, and space travel.Above all else, Thinking Clearly with Data demonstrates why, despite the many benefits of our data-driven age, data can never be a substitute for thinking.An ideal textbook for introductory quantitative methods courses in data science, statistics, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, public policy, and other fieldsIntroduces the basic toolkit of data analysis-including sampling, hypothesis testing, Bayesian inference, regression, experiments, instrumental variables, differences in differences, and regression discontinuityUses real-world examples and data from a wide variety of subjectsIncludes practice questions and data exercises

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 32 b/w illus. 81 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: absolute value • Accountability • Accuracy and precision • Adult • algorithm • Ambivalence • Analysis • Appetite • Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Neural Network • Assertiveness • authorization • Behavior • Bernard Harcourt • biopsy • Blood test • bodily integrity • Broken WIndows Theory • buddhist temple • Business Consultant • Calculation • Capital punishment • Career • Cartesian coordinate system • causal inference • cautionary tale • Certainty • China • Christianity • christianity in japan • Citizenship • civil resistance • cleanliness • Coeliac Disease • Columbia University Press • Communication • Consideration • consumer • Correlation and dependence • correlation coefficient • Correlation does not imply causation • Cost–benefit analysis • credibility • Crime in New York City • Criminology • critical thinking • Criticism • Data Analysis • data set • Debiasing • Decision-Making • deference • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Diagnosis • Dissident • Domain of discourse • Due Process • edict • Effective action • Effectiveness • Efficiency • Employment • Engineering • Equal Opportunity • Erica Chenoweth • Eric Schmidt • estimation • ethics • Explanation • False positive rate • feudalism • Finding • Forecasting • formality • Generosity • George L. Kelling • gluten-free diet • Government • greatness • Hunch (website) • imperialism • implementation • income • Information Privacy • Inspection • Instance (computer science) • Institution • interaction • James Q. Wilson • Justice as Fairness • Law and order (politics) • Law enforcement • learning • Legitimacy (political) • Legitimation • Likelihood Function • Linear Function • linear regression • Line Of Best Fit • Logic • machine learning • Marketing strategy • Measurement • Medical Diagnosis • misdemeanor • Mode of action • Morality • Motivation • natural resource • Nonsense • Nonviolence • nonviolent resistance • Objectivity (philosophy) • openness • Participatory Democracy • Pediatrics • Percentage point • Persecution • Personality • Personhood • phenomenon • Plumbing • Police • Policy • Political Science • Politician • Practical reason • Prediction • privacy • Probability • Problem Solving • Procedural justice • Proportionality (mathematics) • Proscription • Protest • Psychology • Public Opinion • Public speaking • quantitative analyst • quantitative research • random forest • Rationality • reason • Reasonable Person • Regime • regional autonomy • Rendering (computer graphics) • representations • representativeness heuristic • Respect for persons • Responsiveness • result • RICE CAKE • Right to life • rudy giuliani • Scientist • seclusion • self-concept • self-esteem • Self-Organization • Shogun • Social Space • Sociology • Sovereignty • Statistic • Strong Democracy • Subjectivity • Technology • theory • Thought • Toleration • To this Day • Understanding • Variable (mathematics) • Variance • Violence • Violent crime • Voter turnout • Voting • willingness to accept • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21501-4 / 0691215014
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21501-3 / 9780691215013