A estatística nas artes

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THE LADY TASTING TEA / UMA SENHORA TOMA CHÁ – David Salsburg
  • The Lady Tasting Tea: Visual Summary – rkbookreviews – This post is going to serve as a good visual narrative of the development of frequentist world. If you love stats and have worked on identifying patterns in data, it is but obvious that you would have met a host of tests, with different names from different fields. Statistics is one field where the contribution has been made from all kinds of fields ranging from agriculture, clinical psychology, math, finance etc.
  • Book Review – The lady tasting tea: how statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century, David Salsburg – An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one man, Ronald Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the hypothesis. There is no better person to conduct such an experiment, for Fisher is a pioneer in the field of statistics.
  • Uma Senhora toma chá… – Excerto do 1º Capítulo – Editora Zahar
  • “O demônio da estatística” e “Uma senhora toma chá… (2)”, Blog de Marcelo Coelho, membro do Conselho Editorial da Folha e escreve semanalmente no caderno Ilustrada desde 1990.

BLACK SWAN LOGIC / A LÓGICA DO CISNE NEGRO – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Steven D. Levitt is an economist. Stephen J. Dubner is a writer. They co-authored Freakonomics, a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama’s boys. They figured it would sell about 80 copies. Instead, it has sold 4 million, in 35 languages. Then they wrote SuperFreakonomics, with stories about drunk walking, the economics of prostitution, and how to stop global warming. It also became a worldwide best-seller. A lot of other stuff has happened, too. A blog. A movie. A radio show. Lectures. Even Jon Stewart — and Beauty and the Geek. This is the place where all that stuff continues to happen.

THE DRUNKARD’S WALK / O ANDAR DO BÊBADO – Leonard Mlodinov
  • O Andar do Bêbado – A Grande Abóbora, o blog do Marcus (doutorando em Estatística na Penn State University, EUA) – O Andar do Bêbado conta uma breve história da probabilidade e da estatística, desde os primeiros estudos a respeito de primitivos jogos de azar da Idade Média, até o início do século XX. O título do livro é uma referência ao movimento browniano, que citei en passant quando comentei a respeito do fato de um bêbado sempre voltar pra casa.
  • Leonard Mlodinow, Website do autor
  • O andar do bêbado – Como o acaso determina nossas vidas, Leonard Mlodinow – excerto excerto, Editora Zahar
  • A Numbers Guy Quiz on Probability – The Numbers Guy – Carl Bialik examines the way numbers are used, and abused.
  • The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives – The New York Times Sunday Book Review – Playing the Odds, By George Johnson (June 8, 2008) – State lotteries, it’s sometimes said, are a tax on people who don’t understand mathematics. But there is no cause for anyone to feel smug. The brain, no matter how well schooled, is just plain bad at dealing with randomness and probability. Confronted with situations that require an intuitive grasp of the odds, even the best mathematicians and scientists can find themselves floundering. (…)
  • Professor Leonard Mlodinow visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”. This event took place on May 22, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
MONEYBALL – O homem que mudou o jogo

  • Brad Pitt interpreta o digirente Billy Beane que decide utilizar métodos estatísticos para fazer contratações e orientar novas estratégias para o seu time, Oakland A, que conta com um baixo orçamento. Website do filme na IMDb aqui…
  • Reportagem sobre o filme no Globo Esportes: leia aqui…
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