Free download Statistics for Beginners: How easy it is to lie with statistics in business, social science, politics, criminology and law by Bob Mather. Published by Independently Pub. English | 160 Pages | EPUB | ISBN: 192230090X
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The science of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data became a powerful tool to get useful information about humans and their environment.
Personal data has more value than ever and yet you leave terabytes of it for free on your devices or floating around in your cloud.
You wake up one morning to Alexa playing the music you love.
You groggily step forward towards the bathroom where the mirror shows you the weather outside.
As you get ready, the breakfast downstairs has just finished cooking. Your coffee has already been brewed and poured for you.
All you need to do is go downstairs and enjoy a nice breakfast before you get in your car, that drives you to work by itself.
This is what’s known as the internet of things.
The proposed future of what the internet will be.
A world where you have the ease and luxury of many sci-fi films.
Do you know what powers such technology? The world of statistics and machine learning.
It is statistics in which the computers learn what time you get up, what type of food you like, what temperature you like, and the list goes on.
It’s also what monitors your health as yourself and as a society.
It’s what allows cars to drive themselves thanks to the probability matrices. In a world that is powered by statistics and machines that learn based on those statistics, how dangerous is a statistic that lies.