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

by Justin Evans

We have been using data to solve problems for millennia. Ancient Sumerian culture used tally sticks to count sheep. John Graunt, a London hat-maker and perhaps the first data nerd, helped authorities fight the bubonic plague in 1651 by collecting data about all the ways people died. (Deaths by Plague: 110. Deaths by Fainting in the Bath: 1.)

So, what's different now? With personal technology like the PC, and then the smartphone, combined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400248353
• ISBN13: 9781400248353
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
• Length: 304 Pages