3. Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise"

Nate Silver's 2012 bestseller The Signal and the Noise is a book about forecasting. Drawing on examples of forecasting in subjects ranging from sports to gambling, weather, natural disasters, stock market, violence, climate change and elections, Silver explains why the interdisciplinary data scientific skill has been an admirable success in some fields but a sheer embarrassment in others. It is an amazing elementary textbook in data science of the early 21st century, I would say (I was surprised to see that the book has such a mediocre evaluation in Amazon.com... or this is revealing why forecasting is not doing as well as it could).

I recommend you this book today because the book dedicates one of its chapters to epidemiology in which the author unveils unique challenges in the field, referring to the comments of top epidemiologists he had interviewed: information that should intrigue everyone concerned of the Corona Pandemic. For the details, please check the video above.