I saw Hannah Fry three months ago at the RSS Conference and I loved her storytelling of amazing algorithms (check last month’s book), but in the spirit of Christmas I would recommend you to read her other book “The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus. The Mathematics of Christmas” written with the co-author Dr. Thomas Oleron Evans. If you …
Category Archives: Book of the month
Book of the month: November 2018
Two months ago, at the RSS Conference, I listen live to Hannah Fry . I was a great admirer of her long before then due to her amazing BBC documentaries of how Mathematics is surrounding us in real life, every day, everywhere. At the conference, Hannah was promoting her latest book “Hello World” in which she talks about …
Book Of The Month: October 2018
I love this book to bits. Missed going to the author’s training at the Royal Statistical Society, so I decided to buy his book instead called simply “Presenting Data: How to Communicate Your Message Effectively”. It is wonderful! Simple, but very focused on each point or principle. Well structured and with plenty of examples, by the …
Book Of The Month: September 2018
Many times I am asked how I am so good at data viz. The answer is always simple: I cherished and grew it over years. I love data viz: the charts are the pictures of analysis that tell a thousand words! One of the latest books in matter of data viz mixed with big data …