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Skill reading list | Reading time: 1 minute | Updated March 2026 | 5 resources

Data-Driven Decision Making: The Best Books on Analytics, Experimentation, and Evidence

Thinking in Bets, Lean Analytics, Trustworthy Online Experiments—evidence-based decision frameworks.

Data-driven doesn't mean dashboard-obsessed—it means using evidence to calibrate judgment, design experiments, and know when intuition should override numbers. This list covers the analytical foundations, experimentation discipline, and statistical thinking that separate signal from noise.

Decision Frameworks

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke · Book · Amazon

Separating decision quality from outcome quality—foundational for evidence-based thinking.

How to Measure Anything

Douglas Hubbard · Book

Quantifying uncertainty and intangibles—Monte Carlo methods and calibrated estimation for business.

Analytics and Experimentation

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · Book

One Metric That Matters by stage—startup analytics with practical frameworks.

Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

Kohavi, Tang, Xu · Book

A/B testing at scale from Microsoft researchers—statistical rigour for experimentation programs.

Statistical Thinking

Naked Statistics

Charles Wheelan · Book

Accessible statistics literacy—base rates, regression, and probability for non-statisticians.

Go deeper in the FTN Library

Jeff BezosAmazon

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