Book Review: Algorithms for data science

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Book Review: Another Science Is Possible

Book Review: A New Kind of Science

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

Book Review: Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms

Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of the last century published the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (PSEL;1959). This is the most definitive 20th century study of the patterns of human behavior in mundane social situations. If we look to psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing or even organisational studies the representation of human behavior emerges from ri...

Book Review: Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight