Tim Harford is an award-winning columnist, broadcaster, and economist. He is the author of Messy, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist, and is the host of the Cautionary Tales podcast. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding.
Praise for The Data Detective:
"Few people write about social science with the clarity and
wit of Tim Harford. If you're staggered by statistics or daunted by
data, this entertaining romp of a book is essential reading."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive
"Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and
enjoyable than Tim Harford." -Bill Bryson, author of The
Body
"Tim Harford is one of the finest writers of nonfiction. This is
another brilliant read: wise, humane, and above all illuminating.
Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense
of them." -Matthew Syed, author of Rebel Ideas
"An immensely enjoyable guide to using statistics. I loved it."
-Matt Parker, author of Humble Pi
"We are supremely lucky to have the fabulously readable, lucid,
witty, and authoritative Tim Harford to remind us why fact, reason,
numbers, clarity, and truth matter, how beautiful they are and how
crucial to our understanding of the natural world and human
society. Every politician and journalist should be made to read
this book." -Stephen Fry
"In The Data Detective, Tim Harford continues to amuse and
instruct the reader with deceptively profound and broad statistical
intuition and wisdom. He finds historical precedent for our modern
mistakes that are delightful and enlightening and serve to make us
hopeful rather than despairing about our future-a feat in itself."
-Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction
"Thanks to Tim Harford's characteristic wit and magnetic
storytelling, you may not realize you're getting an advanced course
in how to understand the kind of statistics we're all faced with
every day. The Data Detective is certainly a fun book to
read, but it's also a genuinely important one." -David Epstein,
author of Range
"Tim Harford is a brilliant guide to a world that we humans often
find overwhelming and intimidating: the world of data. This
entertaining, engrossing book about the power of numbers, logic,
and genuine curiosity has, in Harford's own words, 'awakened my
sense of wonder' about the beauty of statistics." -Maria Konnikova,
author of The Biggest Bluff
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