Description
Book SynopsisMurtaza Haider, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, and the Director of a consulting firm Regionomics Inc. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto (2014-15). In addition, he is a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society, and an adjunct professor of engineering at McGill University.
Haider specializes in applying analytics and statistical methods to find solutions for socioeconomic challenges. His research interests include analytics; data science; housing market dynamics; infrastructure, transportation, and urban planning; and human development in North America and South Asia. He is an avid blogger/data journalist and writes weekly for the
Dawn newspaper and occasionally for the
Huffington Post.
Haider holds a Masters in transport engineering and planning and a Ph.D. in
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 The Bazaar of Storytellers
- Chapter 2 Data in the 24/7 Connected World
- Chapter 3 The Deliverable
- Chapter 4 Serving Tables
- Chapter 5 Graphic Details
- Chapter 6 Hypothetically Speaking
- Chapter 7 Why Tall Parents Don’t Have Even Taller Children
- Chapter 8 To Be or Not to Be
- Chapter 9 Categorically Speaking About Categorical Data
- Chapter 10 Spatial Data Analytics
- Chapter 11 Doing Serious Time with Time Series
- Chapter 12 Data Mining for Gold
- Index
