How to Lie with Numbers, Stats & Graphs
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Discover the exciting world of lying with data, statistics and graphs.
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The Future of Statistics
An anthology written with the contributions of some of the most prominent statisticians, data analysts and Data Scientists in the world to help you take the next steps in your Data Ninja journey!
How to Lie with Numbers, Stats & Graphs
How to Lie with Numbers, Stats & Graphs is a Box Set, containing two of our biggest selling books – and by far our funniest!
In these eye-opening books, award-winning statistician and author Lee Baker uncovers the key tricks of the trade used by politicians, corporations and other statistical conmen to deceive, hoodwink and otherwise dupe the unwary.
What's Inside:
Truth, Lies & Statistics
Pirates, cats, Mexican lemons and North Carolina lawyers. Cheese consumption, margarine and drowning by falling out of fishing boats. This book has got it all.
A roller coaster of a book in 8 sardonically-written chapters, this might just be the most entertaining statistics book you’ll read this year.
Graphs Don't Lie
Sarah Palin, abortions, global warming and Usain Bolt. The CEO of Apple, 35 trillion gun deaths in 1995, Fox News and 193%. This book has got scandals galore!
With 9 witty chapters taking you on a tour of graphical lies, pictorial deceits and pie charts of mayhem, you might need to read this book again and again...
Award Winning
In this eye-opening book, award winning statistician and author Lee Baker uncovers the key tricks of the trade used by politicians, corporations and other statistical conmen to deceive, hoodwink and otherwise dupe the unwary.
Like how the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer attempted to persuade us that 5 lots of 10 make 150, or how the President of the United States tried to convince us that 420,000 is a larger number than 782,000.
Nice try boys, but we were awake that day!
Secrets
In his trademark sardonic style, the author reveals the secrets of how the statistical hustlers manipulate and misrepresent data and graphs for political or commercial gain – and often get away with it.
What's In Them...
Chapters:
- The Uncomfortable Truth About The Truth
- Are You Biased?
- The Average Human Being Has Only One Testicle
- Give Ps A Chance
- The Confidence Trickster
- Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain...
- Pirates Caused Global Warming
Chapters:
- Introduction
- Truncate the y-axis
- Truncate the x-axis
- Omit the y-axis labels
- Extrapolate
- Pie Charts
- 3D Charts
- Pictocharts
- Epilogue
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For Beginners - And Everyone Else Too!
Although this guide is for beginners, written for ease-of-reading, my hope is that more experienced practitioners might also find value.
It is a thorough introduction to lying with data and graphs, and I hope you enjoy it!
Discover the exciting world of statistical cheating and persuasive misdirection.
Get this book, TODAY!
FREE BONUS BOOK !
The Future of Statistics, an anthology written with the contributions of some of the most prominent statisticians, data analysts and Data Scientists in the world to help you take the next steps in your Data Ninja journey!
Lee Baker
"My mission is to unleash your inner data ninja."
Lee Baker is an award-winning software creator.
With decades of experience in science, statistics and artificial intelligence, he has a passion for telling stories with data.
Insisting that data analysis is much simpler than we think it is, he authors friendly, easy-to-understand books that teach the fundamentals of data analysis and statistics.
As the CEO of Chi-Squared Innovations, one day he’d like to retire to do something simpler, like crocodile wrestling.