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<h2>Data Conference 2022 Bookshelf</h2>

<h2>Data Conference 2022 Bookshelf</h2>

[[Image:Book-TheDataDetective.jpg|150px|The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford]]

[[Image:Number-Sense-cover.jpg|150px|Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage, by Kaiser Fung]]

<h3 style="text-decoration:none;">The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics</h3>

<h3 style="text-decoration:none;">Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage</h3>

<p class="author">by Tim Harford</p>

<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>

<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>

 

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.

 

<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>

<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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