The Phantom Pattern Problem

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and was an Assistant Professor there for seven years. He has won two teaching awards and written more than eighty academic papers and thirteen books.Jay Cordes is a data scientist who enjoys tackling challenging problems, including how to guide future data scientists away from the common pitfalls he saw in the corporate world. He earned a Math degree from Pomona College and more recently graduated from UC Berkeley's Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program.

• 1: Survival of the Sweaty Patter-Processors 2: Predicting What is Predictable 3: Duped and Deceived 4: Fooled Again and Again 5: The Paradox of Big Data 6: Fruitless Searches 7: The Reproducibility Crisis 8: Who Stepped In It? 9: Seeing Things for What They Are

...a worthwhile and enjoyable read, and so I happily recommend the book to anyone interested in the epistemological issues raised by Big Data.