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Book

Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Crown, 2016
8 Book

The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Stephen M. Stigler
Harvard UP, 2016
9 Book

The Great Unknown
Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy
Viking, 2017
8 Book

The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Basic Books, 2018
Book

x + y
A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Eugenia Cheng
Basic Books, 2020
8 Book

Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Article

Retire Statistical Significance
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.
Valentin Amrhein et al.
Nature, 2019
10 Book

The Ethical Algorithm
The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
Oxford UP, 2019
9 Book

Making Up Your Own Mind
Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving
Edward B. Burger
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2015
8 Article

How Statistics Lost Their Power – and Why We Should Fear What Comes Next
William Davies
The Guardian, 2017
8 Article

How the Average Triumphed Over the Median
Dan Kopf
Priceonomics, 2016