New for Icon's Hot Science series - a startling insight into the data that runs our lives.
Brian Clegg's most recent books are What Colour is the Sun (Icon, 2016) and Ten Billion Tomorrows (St. Martins, 2016). His Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Brian has written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, Physics World, The Times, The Observer, Good Housekeeping and Playboy. Brian is editor of popularscience.co.uk and blogs at brianclegg.blogspot.com.
As always, Clegg writes with an easy clarity that draws us in - no
technical expertise required to understand his exploration of this
essential subject - and throughout Big Data's highly enjoyable
pages, the spread and range of material is highly impressive -
dizzying in fact. I personally found entirely new perspectives on
the subject that will keep me pondering for quite some time. I
should add that, if I were still a statistics lecturer at Oxford, I
would recommend the book to my students as bedside reading.
*Former Lecturer in Statistics (St Hilda’s College Oxford),
Lecturer/Researcher in software development*
Clegg provides an engaging insight, reflecting on its positives and
negatives. A holiday workout for the brain.
*Saga Magazine*
Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg - a habitual early adopter of
new technology (and the owner of the second-ever copy of Windows in
the UK) brings big data to life.
*Laboratory News*
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