Author: Scott J. Pearson
Healthcare Poverty
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
by Paul Farmer Copyright (c) 2001. Paul Farmer is a genius and is worthy of reading by anyone interested in his field of medical anthropology. An MD/PhD professor of Harvard and founder of Partners in Health, Farmer, perhaps better than anyone else alive, embodies the ethic that health care is a human right. In this book, he writes on his experiences in Haiti. He writes of fighting AIDS and Tuberculosis. He points out that poverty…
Humanities
Gestalt Psychology: The Definitive Statement of the Gestalt Theory
by Wolfgang KoehlerCopyright (c) 1947. I picked this book to read because I was interested in how the average computer user approaches a computer screen. I’ve been convinced for some time now (maybe 15-20 years) that people approach computers not through user manuals nor even through tips on how to use it. They approach the computer through their intuition. Intuition has a lot to do with the psychological concept of Gestalt, so I’ve learned. The…
Software-Technology
Advanced R
by Hadley Wickhamhttp://adv-r.had.co.nz/ Hadley brings an in-depth analysis of the R statistical language in this book and opens up more questions as it enlightens the reader to possibilities with R. This book is only for the nerds of the nerds as it explores the R programming language, a language used mainly by non-programmers for statistical analysis. As such, the readership for this book is presumably small. Nonetheless, it fills a need as it supplies R…
Books Software-Technology
Resources to Explore: Software
Ry’s Git Tutorial by Ryan Hodson Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism by Mario Biagioli
Biostatistics Books Software-Technology
Resources to Explore: Data Science
Data Science by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics: Algorithms, Worked Examples, and Case Studies by John D. Kelleher, Brian MacNamee and Aoife D’Arcy
Healthcare
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS
by Joanathan EngelCopyright (c) 2006. Although this book is a little over a decade old, most of its history is still relevant to the equation when one speaks of HIV/AIDS. The history of the male-homosexual community combined with the history of IV-drug-user community combined with Asian/African transmissions is still locked in many of the same patterns that were present in 2006. Engel does a strong job of telling their stories and in so doing, telling…
Healthcare
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other People
bg Randall M. PackardCopyright (c) 2016. I chose this book to read because I wanted a tutorial to the field of global health, and I find that histories are interesting tutorials to subjects. The author, unknown to me, is a Johns Hopkins professor of medical history and is known for writing a work on the history of malaria. The book meets my already-high expectations. Written well, it chronicles early attempts to control disease in “foreign”…
Software-Technology
R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics
by Paul Teetor Copyright 2011. I picked up this book with the intention of learning intermediate R. I was past the novice stage of learning the language, but I was still short of learning Advanced R. This book gave me the confidence to read R code more quickly and to understand more nuance in this (fun) language. This book is written by a quant (Wall Street data analyst) who has Masters degrees in both statistics…