Product Description

In the bestselling tradition of Supercrunchers and Freakonomics a popular statistician and blogger provides a fascinating and entertaining narrative that dramatizes the hidden power of numbers and numerical relationships in everyday life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453556 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .75" w x 5.80" l, .89 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

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Review
I really loved reading these stories. Well written, and understandable for people not experienced in statistical thinking. --PlanetWater blog, 6 May 2010

About the Author

Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. His blog, "Junk Charts," pioneered the genre of critically examining data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, "Junk Charts" has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches practical statistics to professionals, and holds statistics, business, and engineering degrees from Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. Fung is also a fellow of the Royal Statistics Society.