making data talk the science

Big Data: An Art of Decision Making (Hardcover)

Manipulating and processing masses of digital data is never a purely technical activity. It requires an interpretative and exploratory outlook - already well known in the social sciences and the humanities - to convey intelligible results from data... more

Making Numbers Count : The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers (Hardcover)

A clear practical first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data--from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds... more

Applications of Management Science: Applications of Management Science (Hardcover)

Applications of Management Science Volume 16 focuses on the application of management science to multiple criteria decision making data envelopment analysis and managerial applications. This volume will be valuable to those interested in multiple... more

Teaching and Learning in Science Aesthetic Experience in Science Education: Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action (Paperback)

This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig... more

Information Fusion and Data Science: Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making (Hardcover)

This book presents a contemporary view of the role of information quality in information fusion and decision making and provides a formal foundation and the implementation strategies required for dealing with insufficient information quality in... more

International Operations Research & Management Science: Normalization of Multidimensional Data for Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problems: Inversion Displacement Asymmetry (Hardcover)

Normalization of Multidimensional Data for Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problems: Inversion Displacement Asymmetry more

Confident: Confident Data Science: Discover the Essential Skills of Data Science (Paperback)

The global data market is estimated to be worth $64 billion dollars making it a more valuable resource than oil. But data is useless without the analysis interpretation and innovations of data scientists. With Confident Data Science learn the essential... more

Texts in Computer Science: Guide to Intelligent Data Science: How to Intelligently Make Use of Real Data (Hardcover)

Making use of data is not anymore a niche project but central to almost every project. With access to massive compute resources and vast amounts of data it seems at least in principle possible to solve any problem. However successful data science... more

Machine learning and Educational Data Analytics (Paperback)

Machine learning has become as one of the widely applied fields of Computer Science for building automated data driven decision making systems. This book is prepared to provide a tour to how to build a predictive model for those who are interested in... more

Context-Aware Machine Learning and Mobile Data Analytics: Automated Rule-Based Services with Intelligent Decision-Making (Paperback)

This book offers a clear understanding of the concept of context-aware machine learning including an automated rule-based framework within the broad area of data science and analytics particularly with the aim of data-driven intelligent decision... more

Pre-Owned Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2006 and Its Companion Online : Data Astronomy Space Sciences Geodesy Surveying Navigation Other 9780118873338

Prepared jointly with Her Majesty s Nautical Almanac Office Rutherford Appleton Laboratory England. Designed in consultation with other astronomers of many countries. Provides current accurate astronomical data for use in the making and reduction of... more

It s All Analytics Part III: The Applications of AI Analytics and Data Science (Hardcover)

Professionals are challenged each day by a changing landscape of technology and terminology. In recent history especially the last 25 years there has been an explosion of terms and methods born that automate and improve decision-making and operations.... more

Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science : Data Streams: Algorithms and Applications (Paperback)

Data stream algorithms as an active research agenda emerged only over the past few years even though the concept of making few passes over the data for performing computations has been around since the early days of Automata Theory. The data stream... more

Making Political Science Matter : Debating Knowledge Research and Method 9780814740330 Used / Pre-owned

Discusses the state of the field of Political Science. This book talks about the usefulness of rational choice theory; the ethical limits of pluralism; the use (and misuse) of empirical research; the divorce between political theory and empirical... more

Pre-Owned Making Sense in the Social Sciences: A Student s Guide to Research and Writing Paperback - USED

Intended for social science students Making Sense in the Social Sciences provides detailed information on designing a project; using quantitative and qualitative data; exercising judgement and good ethics; grammar punctuation and usage; organizing and... more

Routledge Advances in Research Methods Qualitative Analysis in the Making (Hardcover)

How do scholars transform qualitative data into analysis? What does making analysis imply? What happens in the space in-between data and finalized analysis is notoriously difficult to talk about. In other parts of the research process scholars and... more

Statistical Thinking: Analyzing Data in an Uncertain World (Hardcover)

An essential introduction to statistics for students of psychology and the social sciences Statistical thinking is increasingly essential to understanding our complex world and making informed decisions based on uncertain data. This incisive... more

Springer Optimization and Its Applications: Data Analysis and Optimization: In Honor of Boris Mirkin s 80th Birthday (Hardcover)

This book presents the state-of-the-art in the emerging field of data science and includes models for layered security with applications in the protection of sites--such as large gathering places--through high-stake decision-making tasks. Such tasks... more

Statistics and Computing Visualizing Time: Designing Graphical Representations for Statistical Data (Hardcover)

Art or Science? Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization? This is not an easy question to answer even for those who have many years experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to help people understand it... more

Quantum Science and Technology: Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers (Hardcover)

Quantum machine learning investigates how quantum computers can be used for data-driven prediction and decision making. The books summarises and conceptualises ideas of this relatively young discipline for an audience of computer scientists and... more

Business Statistics and Management Decision (Paperback)

Statistics is the science of gathering consolidating presenting scrutinizing and interpreting data to aid in making more effectual decisions (Bhardwaj 2009). Certainly we have noted the big number of evidences and data frequently denoted to as... more

Pre-Owned Essential Statistics for Economics Business and Management (Paperback) 9780470850794

Statistics has evolved from methods of collecting and recording data to a science that plays a vital role in: decision-making; research; development of social and economic policy and planning; production strategies; management; and quality of goods and... more

21 Super Simple Chemistry Experiments (Paperback)

21 Super Simple Chemistry Experiments are easy-to-set-up science experiments that cover a critical aspect of scientific inquiry such as making a good observation data analysis using controls or comparing results. The 21 Super Simple Chemistry... more

Studies in Computational Intelligence: Machine Learning for Computer Vision (Hardcover)

Collecting articles covering talks and tutorials from the latest session of the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) this book offers a thorough exploration of current progress in the science and technology of making machines that see. more

MLOps Lifecycle Toolkit: A Software Engineering Roadmap for Designing Deploying and Scaling Stochastic Systems (Paperback)

This book is aimed at practitioners of data science with consideration for bespoke problems standards and tech stacks between industries. It will guide you through the fundamentals of technical decision making including planning building optimizing... more