Everydata, Mike Gluck
Everydata, Mike Gluck
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Everydata
The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day

Author: Mike Gluck, John H. Johnson

Narrator: John H. Johnson

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/01/2016


Synopsis

While everyone is talking about “big data,” the truth is that understanding the “little data”—the stats that underlie newspaper headlines, stock reports, weather forecasts, and so on—is what helps you make smarter decisions at work, at home, and in every aspect of your life. The average person consumes approximately 30 gigabytes of data every single day, but has no idea how to interpret it correctly. EVERYDATA explains, through the eyes of an expert economist and statistician, how to decipher the small bytes of data we consume in a day.

EVERYDATA is filled with countless examples of people misconstruing data—with results that range from merely frustrating to catastrophic:

The space shuttle Challenger exploded in part because the engineers were reviewing a limited sample set.
Millions of women avoid caffeine during pregnancy because they interpret correlation as causation.
Attorneys faced a $1 billion jury verdict because of outlier data.
Each chapter highlights one commonly misunderstood data concept, using both realworld and hypothetical examples from a wide range of topics, including business, politics, advertising, law, engineering, retail, parenting, and more. You’ll find the answer to the question—“Now what?”—along with concrete ways you can use this information to immediately start making smarter decisions, today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

This was not quite as deep as I had expected. This is roughly equivalent in math discussion to the high school business math level (which my daughter is currently taking, so I recognize some of this from recent homework help). The concepts, like forecasting and sampling, are all described very well,......more

Goodreads review by Daron

I found it very repetitive. The content is good tough.......more

Goodreads review by Koen

Patronising middle-school Statistics and cocktail party factoids. There's undoubtedly an audience that will find this book useful (very small children, Americans), and, unfortunately, a larger one that will find it interesting, but I, for one, am getting very tired of these deeply condescending book......more

A quick, helpful guide on how to interpret the data we all face every day. I want to give this book to everyone in my life. We're all bombarded with data every day, but most of it has caveats or flaws that aren't immediately obvious. The authors of this have essentially created a field guide to help......more