Part I: Thinking like a data scientist. How the rule of 72 can provide guidance to advance your wealth, your career and your gas mileage ; Piano virtuosos and the four-minute mile ; Happiness and causal inference ; Causal inference and death; Using experiments to answer four vexing questions ; Causal inferences from observational studies : fracking, injection wells, earthquakes, and Oklahoma ; Life follows art : gaming the missing data algorithm
Part II: Communicating like a data scientist. On the crucial role of empathy in the design of communications : genetic testing as an example ; Improving data displays : the media's, and ours ; Inside out plots ; A century and a half of moral statistics : plotting evidence to affect social policy
Part III: Applying the tools of data science to education. Waiting for Achilles ; How much is tenure worth? ; Detecting cheating badly : if it could have been, it must have been ; When nothing is not zero : a true saga of missing data, adequate yearly progress, and a Memphis charter school ; Musing about changes in the SAT : is the college board getting rid of the bulldog? ; For want of a nail : why worthless subscores may be seriously impeding the progress of western civilization.
