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All data are local :thinking critically in a data-driven society
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at han…
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- 9780262352215
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346160
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- 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Choosing Down syndrome :ethics and new prenatal testing technologies
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345729
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- 1 online resource (xx, 213 pages).
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The cost-benefit revolution
Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347259
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The Wordbank project :variability and consistency in children's language lear…
"A "big data" approach to understanding cross-cultural langauge learning in children"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236297X
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Qualitative representations :how people reason and learn about the continuous…
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science: how we reason and learn about the continuous phenomena surrounding us. Forbus argues that qualita…
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- 9780262349802
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)
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AI renaissance machines :Inside the new world of machine-created art, literat…
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- 9780262354592
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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The genius checklist :nine paradoxical tips on how you can become a creative …
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347167
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- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) :illustrations
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Fire, ice, and physics :the science of Game of thrones
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- 9780262355292
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- 1 online resource (296 pages) :illustrations
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Literature and cartography :theories, histories, genres
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Gene…
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- 9780262342247
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- 1 online resource (vi, 472 pages) :illustrations
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