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Jan 24, 20225 min read

Book Review: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo

Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...

Nov 24, 20214 min read

Book Review: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff

If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...

Sep 13, 20214 min read

Book Review: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford

Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are...