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[[Image:Book-TheDataDetective.jpg|150px|The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford]]
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[[Image:Number-Sense-cover.jpg|150px|Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage, by Kaiser Fung]]
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<p class="author">by Kaiser Fung</p>
<p>As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he 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, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.</p>
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<p>We live in a world of Big Data--and it's getting bigger every day. Virtually every choice we make hinges on how someone generates data . . . and how someone else interprets it--whether we realize it or not.
<p class="recco">Recommended by This Amazing Department, a GC Data Community partner</p>
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The problem is, the more data we have, the more difficult it is to interpret it. From world leaders to average citizens, everyone is prone to making critical decisions based on poor data interpretations.
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<i>Numbersense</i> gives you the insight into how Big Data interpretation works--and how it too often doesn't work. You won't come away with the skills of a professional statistician, but you will have a keen understanding of the data traps even the best statisticians can fall into, and you'll trust the mental alarm that goes off in your head when something just doesn't seem to add up.</p>
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<p class="recco">Recommended by the Office of the CIO of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, a GC Data Community partner</p>
 
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Data Conference 2022: Driving Data Value and Insights for All Canadians, 23 + 24 February 2022

Register now           Conference agenda           Conference speakers          

Brought to you by Statistics Canada and the Canada School of Public Service with support from the GC Data Community

Discover more about data

Learning

Discover Data series

Digital Academy's Discover Series: Discover Data

An introduction to data in the Government of Canada: Discover how the data revolution is shaping government today and how the effective use of data creates opportunities to improve programs and services for Canadians.

How Data Literate Are You? (online, self-paced)

A Self-Directed Guide to Understanding Data (online, self-paced)

The Role of Data in Digital Government (virtual classroom)


Data Conference 2022 Bookshelf

Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage, by Kaiser Fung

Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage

by Kaiser Fung

We live in a world of Big Data--and it's getting bigger every day. Virtually every choice we make hinges on how someone generates data . . . and how someone else interprets it--whether we realize it or not. The problem is, the more data we have, the more difficult it is to interpret it. From world leaders to average citizens, everyone is prone to making critical decisions based on poor data interpretations. Numbersense gives you the insight into how Big Data interpretation works--and how it too often doesn't work. You won't come away with the skills of a professional statistician, but you will have a keen understanding of the data traps even the best statisticians can fall into, and you'll trust the mental alarm that goes off in your head when something just doesn't seem to add up.

Recommended by the Office of the CIO of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, a GC Data Community partner


Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative Roadmap

Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative Roadmap (June 2021)

by the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative

The Canadian Data Governance Standardization Roadmap tackles the challenging questions we face when we talk about standardization and data governance. It describes the current and desired Canadian standardization landscape and makes 35 recommendations to address gaps and explore new areas where standards and conformity assessment are needed.

SCC established the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative in 2019 to accelerate the development of industry-wide data governance standardization strategies. The Collaborative spent the past two years working together to build a standardization Roadmap. The Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative is a group of 220 Canadians across government, industry, civil society, Indigenous organizations, academia, and standards development organizations.

Recommended by the Standards Council of Canada, a friend of the GC Data Community


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