{"id":1205,"date":"2011-10-13T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2011-10-13T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T05:49:06","slug":"review-the-manga-guide-to-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Manga Guide To Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If that title makes sense to you, you probably know if you want to read this.\u00a0 It is a Japanese comic from Shin Takahashi (of Trend-Pro Co., Ltd.) designed to teach basic statistics.\u00a0 To me it is 200 pages of pure awesome.\u00a0 The plot concerns a young girl who wants to learn statistics so she can impress a young man working at her father&#8217;s marketing firm.\u00a0 She winds up with an eccentric tutor who teaches her statistics and love blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>The drawings are all clear, evocative, and are excessively expressive.\u00a0 The translation is often hilariously formal &#8211; kind of the visual equivalent of bad dubbing, and the characters are fairly broad stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all just trying to be diverting enough to get someone to learn the basics of statistics, including how to carry out and understand basic calculations and hypothesis testing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a delightful way to get a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the basics of the field, and I thoroughly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that title makes sense to you, you probably know if you want to read this.\u00a0 It is a Japanese comic from Shin Takahashi (of Trend-Pro Co., Ltd.) designed to teach basic statistics.\u00a0 To me it is 200 pages of pure awesome.\u00a0 The plot concerns a young girl who wants to learn statistics so she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}