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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Models help us explain, design, and predict.
Chapter 3: Multiple models boost accuracy.
Chapter 4: Normal distributions power many basic models.
Chapter 5: Many key systems can be viewed as power laws.
Chapter 6: Linear regression lets us see if variables are correlated.
Chapter 7: Concave and convex functions help model very different systems.
Chapter 8: Modeling human beings is a tricky undertaking.
Description
The Model Thinker (2018) is a guide to using models to make data talk. In a world inundated with information, it sheds some much-needed light on the patterns underlying the noise – and points us toward the ways we can reveal those patterns for ourselves.
Who Should Listen
- Modeling novices interested in making sense of data
- Future-focused leaders interested in predicting the next big thing
- Anyone who wants to sound a little smarter at dinner parties