Books

Below are a list of titles that explore how statistics are used (and misused) in everyday life:

• Damned Lies and Statistics (Joel Best)
• Stat-Spotting (Joel Best)
• Data Feminism (Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein)
• The Tiger that Isn't (Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot)
• The Little Book About Numbers for People Who Would Really Rather Not Have to Read About Numbers (Yvonne Tommis)
• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado-Perez)
• How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers (Tim Harford)
• The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (Tim Harford)
• Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day (John Johnson and Mike Gluck)
• The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (David Spiegelhalter)

For detailed methodological how-to's, the following books and textbooks can help you master basic and more advanced statistical operations:

• Exploring Data (Catherine Marsh, Jane Elliot)
• First (and Second) Steps in Statistics (Daniel Wright, Kamala London)
• Social Research Methods (Alan Bryman)
• Designing and Doing Social Research (Lesley Andres)
• The Little Quick Fix series from Sage covers project management, statistics skills, and data collection (various)
• Introducing Quantitative Methods (Daniela Aidley)
• Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research (Charlotte Brookfield)

More to come...