The Little Book of Data, Justin Evans
The Little Book of Data, Justin Evans
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The Little Book of Data
Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Fuel AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World

Author: Justin Evans

Narrator: Justin Evans

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2025

Synopsis

Read by the author. Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and civic life, every professional and citizen needs to harness this power.In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”The stories are told in a fast-moving, vivid, sometimes comic style, and cover a wide frame of reference from adtech to climate tech, the bubonic plague, tiny submarines, genomics, railroads, bond ratings, and meat grading. (That’s right. Meat.)Along the way Evans injects lessons from his own career journey and offers practical thought-starters for readers to apply to their own organizations.By reading The Little Book of Data, you will achieve the fluency to apply your data superpowers to your own mission and challenges—and you will have fun along the way.You will be, in other words, a data person.

About Justin Evans

Justin Evans is a twenty-year veteran of the data and technology industry, whose innovations have generated hundreds of millions in revenue for Fortune 500 companies and startups. His mission as a communicator is to demystify data and AI and empower every leader to use their “data superpowers.” He is a frequent conference speaker, the author of the DataStory substack, and a novelist whose fiction has been named a Top 100 book by the Washington Post. Evans is a graduate of Columbia University and NYU Stern where he received an MBA.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on June 14, 2025

Summary: Stories of how people have used data to solve big problems and how that might apply in one’s own work. Some of us are in data denial. We don’t think we need to understand it. Or its too complicated. Then, it’s just intimidating. And for some, it’s just downright evil. Justin Evans passionate......more

Goodreads review by Mike on January 30, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this complementary ARC in exchange for my honest review! This book gives a quick look through the history of data up to current times from the perspective of an English major that ended up becoming a data professional without writing code (I'm......more

Goodreads review by Robin on June 07, 2025

I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway. This is a great book for anyone over 50 trying to understand data and its many uses. The author takes the reader from a colonoscopy to learning to swim at summer camp and how data affects the most mundane steps of life-such as how dangerous the wa......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on May 07, 2025

I got this book through NetGalley so had a chance to read it before it came out. I enjoyed the read a lot. It didn’t get too deep into the data, but shared many insightful examples of data things. The end of the chapter exercises were well thought out and put together as well.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 23, 2025

Interesting to a point but too shallow for a person with information systems experience he doesn’t distinguish between information and data and knowledge It’s just little human interest stories that involve data......more

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