Super Freakonomics is published and it is as good as the earlier book. This post summarizes one of the stories in the book that show that perhaps our behaviors around money are instinctual.
From the category archives:
Books
I’ve been waiting for what feels like a long time to get my hands on Stephen Few’s new book, Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis.
While I have been posting about some great, recently-released books (see yesterday’s post about the book, Data Quality Assessment), I wanted to mention Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions by James Taylor and Neil Raden.
Yesterday, my post touched on the importance of data quality within the Business Intelligence architecture.
John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives and Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990’s, released the book Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future in 2006.
A few weeks ago I found an interesting article on Boing Boing about how the Web Destroys Categories, Disciplines, and Hierarchies.
An interesting article from Boing Boing talks about quirks in the human decision making process.
Edward Tufte is the master of effective and clear visual presentation of analytical information.
There are a large number of excellent data warehousing books out on the market.
