Edouard Mathieu
Edouard Mathieu is Head of Data at Our World in Data. Previously, he worked as a data scientist at the University of Oxford, in the departments of Population Health and Primary Care Health Sciences. He holds a master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris. In addition to being interviewed on Five Books, he also did several interviews for us between 2018 and 2021.
Interviews with Edouard Mathieu
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling -
2
The Signal and the Noise
by Nate Silver -
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Dan Gardner & Philip E Tetlock -
4
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
by Annie Duke -
5
Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
by Hannah Fry
The best books on Using Data to Understand the World, recommended by Edouard Mathieu
The best books on Using Data to Understand the World, recommended by Edouard Mathieu
Even as more and more data becomes available, many of us have a view of the world that doesn’t correspond to reality. On probabilities in particular, people tend to be completely clueless. Here Edouard Mathieu, Head of Data at Oxford-based research group Our World in Data, recommends books to help readers not only use data to better understand the world, but also make better decisions in daily life.
