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From the stock market to covid-19, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models-from linear regression to random walks and far beyond-...

What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments, makes a clear and compelling practical case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include di...

Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call out for analytics, whatever those might be. And everyone wants to predict what will happen next. Can we accurately predict if a company's stock will rise, whether or not a disease will spread, or who will become the next President of the United States? As anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet groaning with weeks, months, or years of...

Contains over 470 works, from finished pieces to support sketches and roughs, with each piece accompanied by text detailing the design ideas and illustration techniques used. This book takes readers on a journey into the minds of talented and successful concept design professionals.

*Shows us how we have more power than we think to take control of our lives in our older years *Written with humor and love to help us better embrace our mortality and empowers us to make better and more informed decisions on what matters most *Gives us simple to follow exercises that successfully show us how easy it is to get proactive *Shares insider tricks of the trade on important goods and services for seniors to help us avoid making bad...

Contains approximately 300 colour works by the seven contributing designers. In addition to the eighty-four "Concept Design" pieces, support sketches, and roughs appear throughout the book, and each piece is accompanied by text detailing the design ideas and/or illustration techniques used. This book includes eight fold-out pages.

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Examining how the power of diversity creates better efficiency, showing how groups of people with many different disciplines often outperform groups of like-minded experts.

Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often produces variation around the mean for performance measures. Offering an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems, this title shows how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems.