Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Ayres, Ian |
| Publisher: | Bantam |
| Date: | 8/26/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER•
With new information on crunching your own numbers to get the edge the experts have
An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this WallStreet Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not evenimagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade. In orderto succeed—even survive—in our data-based world, you need to become statisticallyliterate.
Cutting-edge organizations are already crunching increasingly larger databasesto find the unseen connections among seemingly unconnected things to predict humanbehavior with staggeringly accurate results. From Internet sites like Google andAmazon that use filters to keep track of your tastes and your purchasing history,to insurance companies and government agencies that every day make decisions affectingyour life, the brave new world of the super crunchers is happening right now. Noone who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without readingIan Ayres’s engrossing and enlightening book.
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