Saturday, February 4, 2017

Day 44 February 2017

Notes for February 2017


Books that are must reads in March

  • When China Rules The World by Martin Jacques 
    • ISBN 978-1-59420-185-1
  • The Challenge of Things by A.C. Grayling  
    • ISBN 978-1-63286-246-4
  • Paying The Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab
    • ISBN 978-0-226-40434-9
  • Will College Pay Off? by Peter Cappelli
    • ISBN 978-1-61039-526-7
  • The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
    • ISBN 978-0-307-40776-4
  • The Constitution Today by Akhil Reed Amar
  • Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
  • Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The Wisdom of Frugality by Emrys Westacott

Look into these books

  • Game of Loans by Beth Akers
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • Scientific Management Movement by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  • Twilight Warriors by James Kitfield
  • Thundersticks by David Silverman
  • Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman
  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  • If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal by Jeremy Duda
  • They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
  • Ray & Joan by Lisa Napoli
  • The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
  • Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
  • The Framers' Coup by Michael Klarman (Get this one with "The Constitution Today" by Akhil Reed Amar)
  • Do More, Spend Less by Brad Wilson
  • The Whole 30 by Melissa Hartwig
  • The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer
  • The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer
  • Data Journalism Handbook
    • becomingadatascientist.com
    • datajournalismhandbook.org
  • The Data Journalism Handbook by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers
  • Doing Data Science by Cathy O'Neil
  • Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell
  • Bayesian Data Analysis by Andrew Gelman
  • Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
  • Think Bayes by Allen Downey
  • Data Science for Business by Foster Provost
  • Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
  • What is Data Science? by Mike Loukides
  • A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon rogers
  • Machine Learning by Peter Flach
  • Innumeracy by John Allen Paulo
  • A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
  • How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
  • Data Smart by John Foreman
  • Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
  • North Valley Library
    • The Beer Bible by Jeff Alworth ISBN 978-0-7611-8498-0 (663.4)
    • Salt, A World History by Mark Kurlansky ISBN 0-8027-1373-4 (553.63)
    • The Pencil by Henry Petroski, ISBN 0-679-73415-5 (674.88)
    • The Black West by William Loren Katz, ISBN 0-940880-18-0 (978)
  • The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
  • The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
  • The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty
  • The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
  • Invisible Man by Mychal Denzel Smith
  • Crisis of Character by Gary Byrne
  • Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
  • The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen
  • Engineering Victory by Thomas Army
  • Islamic Exceptionalism by Shahid Hamid
  • Ordinarily Well by Peter Kramer
  • Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
  • Black Square by Sophie Pinkham
  • Enhanced Interrogation by James Mitchell

Kid Books to Research


  • Dexter The Touch by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Golem, Story and Pictures by David Wisniewski
    • ISBN-13: 978-0-395-72618-1
  • Solomon and the Ant, And other Jewish Folktales by Sheldon Oberman
  • Not One Damsel in Distress, World Folktales for Strong Girls by Jane Yolen
    • ISBN 0-15-202047-0
  • Mightier Than the Sword, World Folktales for Strong Boys by Jane Yolen
    • ISBN 978-0-15-216391-4
  • Nursery Tales Around the World by Judy Sierra
    • ISBN 0-395-67894-3
  • Trick of the Tale by John & Caitlin Matthews
    • ISBN 978-0-7636-3646-3


Research This Information

  • West Coaster Magazine
  • Beer
    • Estrella Jalisco beer created by Grupo Modelo S.A.B. de C.V.
    • He'Brew Messiah, Nut Brown Ale created by Shmaltzbrewing.com
    • Hard Root Beer, MissionBrewery.com
    • Oatmeal Stout, merchantduvin.com, Samual Smith Old Brewery Tadgaster, Yorkshire, England
    • Orange Wheat, Hangar 24 Craft Brewery LLC, Redlands, CA
    • Raspberry Brown, Lost Coast Brewery, 617 4th Street, Eureka, CA 
    • Devotion Ale, The Lost Abbey, San Marcos, CA lostabbey.com
    • Lost and Found Ale
    • Stiegl Radler, Louis Glunz Beer, Inc., Lincolnwood, Illinois 60712, bottled by Stieglbrewery, Austria
    • Hoegaarden Wit-Blanche, InBev Belgium NV/SA, Stoopkensstraat 46, B-3320 Hoegaarden, Belgium, imported by Brands Alliance, St. Louis, MO
    • Abbey Ale St. Bernardus Abt 12, Br. St. Bernard, Belgium, Trappistenweg 23, Watou, Belgium, Imported by D&V International, Inc., Jupiter, Florida 33458
    • Stellaartois.com, Cidre, Stella Artois Cidre Premium Cider
    • Chimay Peres Trappistes Grande Reserve, Brewed at Scourmont Abbey, Bottled by Bieres de Chimay, NV, 6464 Baileux, Belgium, Imported by Manneken-Brussel Imports, Inc, chimay.com-espacechimay.com
    • Very Bad Elf, Ridgeway Brewing, Oxfordshire RG80JW, Imported by Sheltonbrothers.com
    • Anchor Brewing, San Franscisco, anchorbrewing.com
  • Ideology
  • Start This Program in June
    • https://www.datacamp.com/courses
  • College Fairs
    • https://www.nacacfairs.org/?_ga=1.82593366.1140935914.1486329464
  • Stem College & Career Fairs
    • https://www.nacacfairs.org/attend/stem-college-and-career-fairs/
  • Elizabeth Nunez, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Trellis Method for Coffee
  • History of the Espresso Machine
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
  • American Enterprise Institute
  • Absent, Social Influence, Anchoring Effect
  • Abstinence Violation Effect