My new job involves working with numbers. A lot. So, I started reading about using numbers, and I very much enjoyed ‘The Triumph of Numbers’ by I.B. Cohen (2005). This book gives an historical account not only of how numbers were used in different times, but also of ‘how counting shaped modern life’.
The books [...]
"The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality"
Influence.ME: an R package providing tools for detecting influential data in mixed models.