Teaching Data Analytics More Effectively: Book Review of The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data.

How should statistics be taught in the age of data science, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and sophisticated computational statistics algorithms and software? Chapter 9 ("Putting probability and statistics together") begins with a warning that the content of the chapter is challenging but worthwhile, and then introduces the key idea of treating statistics calculated from sample data as random variables with their own distributions. Its suggestions for teaching applied statistic using modern (computational and AI/ML) methods deserve to be widely considered by teachers of statistics, AI/ML, and data analytics at all levels. [Extracted from the article]