Be Data Literate

Creating Data Literate Students provides high school librarians and educators with foundational domain knowledge to teach a new subset of information literacy skills — data and statistical liter

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Edwards (language in education, U. of Reading, UK) explores the theoretical and policy issues related to multilingualism and educational practice. She examines how people shift from one language to an

The second edition of this successful book describes and explains the development of children's spoken and written language. Drawing on both classical and recent research studies, the processes where

Winner of the prestigious UK Literacy Association Academic Book Award for 2015 in its original edition, this fully revised edition ofLearning to be Literate uniquely analyses research into literacy fr

Literacy skills are of paramount importance to students in the digital age. In this book, teachers and administrators will explore the six comprehensive skill areas essential to 21st century literacy—

The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. Data literacy is

The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. Data literacy is

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An AI expert reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to usher in a new era of scientific discovery Researchers are publishing more papers than ever before, but human expertise has grown narrower and the rate of scientific progress is slowing. But AI will reverse this trend. AI pioneer Richard Socher argues that AI will usher in a century's worth of breakthroughs in just the next decade as each stage of the scientific process--from hypothesis to experiment, from data to theory--is connected and transformed. The Eureka Machine pulls back the curtain on how AI is already revolutionizing fields as diverse as medicine, cell biology, economics, neuroscience, and astronomy. The results? Radically sped-up timelines for drug development, simulated life-forms accurate down to the subcellular level, and a nascent ability to read and record thoughts (even dreams!). Every branch of science will be transformed, but none more than the new science of intelligence itself. The fu

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這是個被數據啟發與驅動的時代。解讀與利用數據不再是專業能力，而是讓自己脫穎而出的基本技能。數據素養教父親授養成數據識讀的學習架構與方法，不用精通數學與統計，也能高效收集與精確解讀數據，在職場與生活中，擺脫各種操弄，為自己做出聰明決策！NBA球隊利用球員疲勞程度與睡眠深淺等數據，調整訓練內容與預防傷害；勞斯萊斯運用大數據，實時監控全球上千架客機引擎效能，充分預測可能產生的問題，確保飛行無虞；超馬選手利用每次訓練獲得的速度、節奏、心律、最大攝氧量等數值，不斷精進強化整體訓練計畫……我們所處的世界，透過分享統計資料、數據、資訊、數字、文字、圖片等等，來陳述事情始末，同時傳遞訊息，但這些數據和資訊經常受到誤用，成效也遭到扭曲。擁有數據不等於能善用數據，你必須知道那些有用，以及怎麼用。科技讓大量收集數據成為一件很容易的事，但數據宛如石油，必須精煉之後才有價值，若使用者不懂得提出對的問題，或善用手上的資訊做決策，一切只是枉然。在這樣的環境下，不必人人都是數據科學家，但人人都得具備數據素養：讀取數據、用數據工作、分析數據、用數據溝通的能力。素有「數據素養教父」之稱，被視為推動數據素養運動的先驅者之一的喬丹•莫羅，以新冠疫情、天氣預報、超馬訓練、房價研究等生活實例，說明數據分析的四個層次與可運用的軟體，教你如何在商業環境和生活中蒐集高品質數據，找出隱藏其中的有用資訊，並透過「數據字典」達到數據暢流，以數據工作與溝通，擺脫各種操弄，在職場與生活中做出更聰明的分析與決策。本書更提供數據素養的具體方式，以及組織能夠採取哪些措施，建構出完善、扎實的數據素養策略，賦予內部人員強大的力量。

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The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis that affected millions of lives and brought mental health challenges to the forefront. In Hong Kong, the situation was worsened by uniquely strict COVID-19 regulations, quarantine measures, and travel restrictions. The mental health issues associated with the pandemic did not end with the lifting of the mask mandate. On the contrary, the repercussions are only just beginning to surface and their impact will be felt for years to come.This eye-opening book tells the stories of ordinary Hongkongers who faced extraordinary challenges during the pandemic. Through a blend of first-person accounts, psychological insights, and hard data, it offers a compelling and accessible exploration of the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on mental health in Hong Kong.However, this book is not only a chronicle of suffering; it is also a guide to healing and hope. It offers practical advice on how to overcome the mental health issues caused by the pandemic,

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. The approach generates policy debates, influences civic decisions, and informs design to help ensure that the voices of people represented in the data are neither marginalized nor left unheard.

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication.Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become too smart? In Artificial Communication, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication.To do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an al

With an exclusive new bonus chapter... from Adam's POVBased on the available information and the data hitherto collected, my hypothesis is that the further I stay away from love, the better off I will be. 'Contemporary romance's unicorn: the elusive marriage of deeply brainy and delightfully escapist.' Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners*When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof.So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. Which