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Data Analysis for Politics and Policy by Edward R. Tufte

Data Analysis for Politics and Policy Edward R. Tufte ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0131975412, 9780131975415
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Page: 192

Ben comes to the Center from Stateline.org, where he worked as a staff writer focused on education policy and data analysis. Policymakers, instead of just being bleeding-heart do-gooders, must temper their enthusiasm for regulation by doing cost-benefit analyses to see if their proposals make sense. I had no idea that Edward Tufte's 1974 classic, Data Analysis for Politics and Policy, was available for download for free on his site. The 179-page book is for courses in applied statistics, particularly for policy making and the social sciences. Data Analysis for Politics and Policy - free book at E-Books Directory - download here. Following on from earlier posts on the LSE Politics Blog, Mike Savage and Fiona Devine clarify the understanding of class on which the project was predicated and address some of the criticisms which have been aimed at it. Participation in Politics and Policy-making Text mining methods help in categorization of data, reduction of information, visualization to help and disentangle complex and prolific data, high velocity of analysis. Almost 40 years have passed since it was published, and not only is the math still. To be sure, it will be interesting to see if comparable analyses on other data sets show different patterns (whilst noting that few if any data sets have the appropriate questions on cultural issues to allow this issue to be properly scrutinised). DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S.