Analytics Press
News
September 30, 2004
The book Turning Numbers into Knowledge is now in its second printing
OAKLAND, CA – Analytics Press today announced that the hardcover book Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving is now in its second printing. Turning Numbers into Knowledge teaches the art of using numbers for practical problem solving, revealing tools, tricks, and heretofore unwritten rules that the best real-world problem solvers know by heart.
“Quantitative reasoning skills are increasingly vital to good decision making in the world today, but too many people shy away from studying this topic,” said the author, Jonathan G. Koomey. “This book’s many cartoons, quotations, and funny graphics make it more readable (and much, much more fun) than other books that teach these skills,”said Koomey.
This book is written for researchers and decision makers in business, government, and academia, and has been used to teach classes at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, IBM, the Global Business Network, Rochester Institute of Technology, Allegheny College, Ohio University Business College, Sonoma State University, JFK University (Orinda, CA), College of the Redwoods, DUXX Escuela de Graduados en Liderazgo Empresarial, S.C. (Mexico), and many other institutions. It is an ideal training manual for those new to or intimidated by quantitative analysis, and an excellent refresher for those with more experience. For more details, go to http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com and http://www.analyticspress.com/.
Turning Numbers into Knowledge:
Mastering the Art of Problem Solving
by Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D.
$34.95 hardcover, 221 pages.
ISBN 0-9706019-0-5, Pub. Date (2d printing): September 2004.
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Analytics Press, a member of the Publishers Marketing Association, has since the year 2000 taught critical thinking skills by publishing books, course materials, and software, and by organizing seminars and workshops. For more details, check out http://www.analyticspress.com/.
Jonathan Koomey is on leave from his job as a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, California, and is a consulting professor at Stanford University. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard University. Koomey is the author or co-author of eight books and more than one hundred and thirty articles and reports.
Koomey has appeared on Nova/Frontline, BBC radio, CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Tech Nation, On the Media, the California Report, KPIX TV (SF), CNET radio, and KQED radio. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Washington Post, Science, Science News, American Scientist, Dow Jones News Wires, USA Today, SF Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Interactive Week, Business 2.0, Salon.com, and Network Magazine.
Interviews may be arranged via:
Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D.
Email: JGKoomey@numbersintoknowledge.com
Phone: 510-547-7860
Websites: http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com, http://www.analyticspress.com/
Analytics Press
PO Box 20313
Oakland, CA 94620-0313
Also from Analytics Press:
Show Me the Numbers
Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
by Stephen Few
$45 hardcover, 265 pages.
ISBN 0-9706019-9-9, Pub. Date (1st printing): September 2004.