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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT: Tufte shows how to examine data for quality and "truthiness". Tufte also shows how to "design" information to turn meaningless data into meaningful, usable information--which could improve your career, or help the war on "Fake News". Due to the cost-cutting elimination of many fact-checkers and overseers of information quality & ethics in newsagencies, corporations, and schools, many people are losing important tools for critical thinking ie. being able to tell or comprehend "real truths" versus "fake" information. This affects everybody's freedom by manipulating the public, voting, and whether they can protect themselves from fraudsters. ABSTRACT: Solving Social Problems using data analysis; Intro to How to use Data Analysis, Predictions and projections: some issues of research design... "PREFACE If you want to understand and solve social problems, a good first step toward these goals is to master the quantitative ideas in this collection Of papers. The readings show What quantitative analysis is good for and how it can be Criticized and improved. Included, then, are a number of well-executed studies of important social, economic, and political problems: eq

Author

Tufte, Edward R., 1942- comp

Publisher

Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co

Published

1970

Language

EN

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-24