10 books (in no particular order) that are not directly related to transportation or planning but will definitely help improve the way you think about quantitative analysis.
- Everything is obvious: How common sense fails us – Duncan J. Watts
- Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy – Cathy O’Neil
- Superforecasting: The art & science of prediction – Phillip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
- The black swan: The impact of the highly improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking, fast and slow – Daniel Khaneman
- The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail but some don’t – Nate Silver
- Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness – Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- The Cult of statistical significance : How the standard error costs us jobs, justice and lives – Stephen Ziliak & Deirdre McCloskey
- Dance with chance: Making luck work for you – Spyros Makridakis, Robin Hogarth & Anil Gaba
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