What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Analysis for Social Science’

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Updated 12 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Analysis for Social Science’

Authors: Eleba Llaudet and Kosuke

“Data Analysis for Social Science” provides a friendly introduction to the statistical concepts and programming skills needed to conduct and evaluate social scientific studies.

Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics and coding and only minimal knowledge of math, the book teaches the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference while analyzing data from published studies with the statistical program R. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Updated 21 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Spanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological.

“In Silence So Deep It Rings,” renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of nineteenth-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land.