Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth
Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth By Phaedra Daipha
2015 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 022629868X | PDF | 2 MB
2015 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 022629868X | PDF | 2 MB
"In Masters of Uncertainity, Phaedra Daipha offers a new framework for understanding decision-making practice after spending years immersed in a northeastern office of the National Weather Service. Arguing that forecasters have made a virtue of the unpredictability of the weather, Daipha shows how they enlist an onmivorous appetite for information and improvisational collage techniques to create a locally meaningful forecast on their computer screens. This richly detailed and lucidly written book advances a theory of decision making that foregrounds the pragmatic and situated nature of expert cognition and casts new light on how we make decisions in the digital age"--Page {4] of cover.