TY  - BOOK
AU  - Page, Scott E.
TI  - The model thinker : : what you need to know to make data work for you
SN  - 9781541675711
U1  - 001.4226 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, 
KW  - Social sciences--Mathematical models
KW  - Social systems--Mathematical models
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Information visualization
KW  - Data mining
N1  - The many-model thinker
; Why model?
; The science of many models
; Modeling human actors
; Normal distributions : the bell curve
; Power-law distributions : long tails
; Linear models
; Concavity and convexity
; Models of value and power
; Network models
; Broadcast, diffusion, and contagion
; Entropy : modeling uncertainty
; Random walks
; Path dependence
; Local interaction models
; Lyapunov functions and equilibria
; Markov models
; Systems dynamics models
; Threshold models with feedbacks
; Spatial and hedonic choice
; Game theory models times three
; Models of cooperation
; Collective action problems
; Mechanism design
; Signaling models
; Models of learning
; Multi-armed bandit problems
; Rugged-landscape models
; Opioids, inequality, and humility
N2  - From the stock market to genomics laboratories, 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--that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's "many-model paradigm," which shows the reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to leverage data and information to their advantage
ER  -