Product Description: This interdisciplinary volume features contributions from researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, and physics. State-of-the-art techniques and applications used to analyze data obtained from studies in cognition, emotion, and electrophysiology are reviewed along with  techniques for modeling in real time and for examining lifespan cognitive changes, for conceptualizing change using item response, nonparametric and hierarchical models, and control theory-inspired techniques for deriving  diagnoses in medical and psychotherapeutic settings...read more

Product Description: "Steve Baker puts his finger on perhaps the most important cultural trend today: the explosion of data about every aspect of our world and the rise of applied math gurus who know how to use it." --Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine (Wired Magazine ) An urgent look at how a global math elite is predicting and altering our behavior -- at work, at the mall, and in be...read more

Product Description: Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves just by living in the modern world. Now, a group of mathematicians is sifting through this data to profile us and manipulate our behavior without our even realizing it.

Product Description: An urgent look at how a global math elite is predicting and altering our behaviorat work, at the mall, and in bed.

Beginning with examples of the mathematician who out-predicted wine buffs in determining the best vintages, and the sports scouts who use statistics rather than intuition to pick winners, this work exposes the world of data-miners, introducing the people and the techniques.