日常的な状況への幅広い統計応用を精選提供し、統計解析がいかに刺激的で多様になりうるかを描写する一冊。聴覚障害のある方々への音楽を楽しむ選択の提供、テキストからの意味ある量的データの抽出、洪水災害をより理解するためのモデリングなど、多種のトピックをカバー。This book offers a broad selection of statistical applications to everyday situations, illustrating how exciting and diverse statistical analysis can be. It covers a wide variety of topics, including offering hearing-impaired people the option to enjoy music, extracting meaningful quantitative data from texts, and modeling flood disasters to help get a better grip on them. Most of the examples are not typically found in textbooks but directly relate to real-life problems encountered by the “average person”, including topics relevant for sustainable development.