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Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving

21 reviews
Jonathan G. Koomey

Analytics Press, 2003

A great primer and reference to fall back on
While no doubt I've heard many of nuggets contained in the book over the course of my high school and college days, I found Koomey's book a pleasurable read and useful synthesis of approaches and tips for completing quality research and analyses. Internalizing Koomey's advice is going to help most readers be more discriminating consumers of published research and better authors of their own ...

Winning the Oil Endgame

6 reviews
Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, ...

Rocky Mountain Institute, 2004

Better Sooner Than Later
This study was funded partially by the Pentagon and written by scientists from the Rocky Mountain Institute, led by Amory Lovins. According to them, the US could end the need to import oil by 2040, and not need oil at all by 2050. "Winning The Oil Endgame" talks a game of improved efficiency, making cars out of lightweight carbon instead of steel, powering them with hybrid engines, substituting ...