Overview

Wherever you look, information is staring back at you. It’s on road-signs, newspapers, computer screens, even this page. When you think about it, nearly our whole lives are spent processing information and deciding what to do with it. Our actions are motivated by beliefs which are formulated depending on the data available to us. Information Generation is the story of the seminal role data plays in our lives and explains how the advance of our civilization has come hand in hand with our ability to collect and interpret data. Starting with occasional scratching on cave walls, eminent statistician David J. Hand guides us right up to the modern era where society is completely dependent on an abundance of data systems for its very survival. Teeming with varied and interesting examples of the role of data, Hand’s book offers an accessible and beautifully written account to one of the most underrated and hugely important concepts in human society today.

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Alison Wolf - Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, King's College London This is a really excellent book, full of interest whether you are a statistician, a student or a lay person aware of living in a world awash with data. Paul Ormerod - author of The Death of Economics and Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics. The media bombards us with statistics. This is an excellent guide to interpreting and understanding this information, in all its strengths and weaknesses.

Author Information

Author David J. Hand is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. He has written over ten books on data and statistics and been a consultant for governments around the world.

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