Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

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.

William K. Ayres is Ian Ayres. Yale Law School's Townsend Professor of Law. He is a Forbes magazine columnist and a regular commenter on Marketplace on public radio. He's written or coauthored seven previous novels, the most recent of which is Why Not?

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ISBN 13	9780553384734
ISBN 10	0553384732
Title	Super Crunchers
Author	Ian Ayres
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-08-26
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Winner of American Library Association Notable Books 2007, Winner of The Economist Best Books of the Year 2007
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