Books by Stephen Baker
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review 1: So this book describes the much-hyped match between IBM's watson computer and Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. However, Mr. Baker devotes much more time to the actual creation of the computer, which is really fascinating. He discusses all the problems the progr...
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review 1: The Numerati is like the People Magazine of Big Data, circa 2008. It introduces you to specific data analysts, where they work and what problems they are trying to solve, with vague references to "math" and "regressions", along with speculation on what data analysis portends for ...
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review 1: Late last week, Stephen Baker's The Numerati caught my eye. Its cover belies the remarkable content inside, as Baker addresses as how every facet of our lives is being converted into data and tracked. Our masses of decisions and feelings are turned into bits that computers can a...
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review 1: It's impossible for me to review this without making comparisons to a very similar book I recently read: Super Crunchers by Ian Ayers.This book was written by a liberal arts major/business writer and reads like it. That isn't a negative aspect necessarily, but if Super Crunchers ...