An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant
blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business
bestseller examines the "power" in numbers. Today more than ever,
number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even
imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the
grade. In order to succeed—even survive—in our data-based world,
you need to become statistically literate.
Cutting-edge organizations are already crunching increasingly
larger databases to find the unseen connections among seemingly
unconnected things to predict human behavior with staggeringly
accurate results. From Internet sites like Google and Amazon that
use filters to keep track of your tastes and your purchasing
history, to insurance companies and government agencies that every
day make decisions affecting your life, the brave new world of the
super crunchers is happening right now. No one who wants to stay
ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading
Ian Ayres’s engrossing and enlightening book.