Recommended Reading for OR / Analytics Professionals
- "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver
- "Popper Selections" by Karl Popper (edited by David Miller)
- "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- "Against the Gods" by Peter L. Bernstein
- "How to Measure Anything" and "The Failure of Risk Management" by Douglas W. Hubbard
Recommended References / Textbooks
- "100 Statistical Tests" by Gopal K. Kanji
- "Spreadsheeting Modeling and Decision Analysis" by Cliff T. Ragsdale
- "The Algorithm Design Model" by Steven S. Skiena
- "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman
- "Handbook of Constraint Programming" edited by Francesca Rossi, Peter van Beek, and Toby Walsh
General Recommendations
- "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy" by Thomas Sowell
- "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers" by Will Durant
- "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life" by Daniel Dennett