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Number Savvy runs the gamut from a comprehensive description of how individual numerical systems evolved to a detailed analysis of the minutiae of aggregate data. It peels back the layers of how data are gathered, how they are aggregated, and how they are used - and misused. It explains how data's grains of sand bind together to make a beach of usable data, and how changing tides will affect the future nature of that beach. Among numerous perceptive comments is a neat summary of one of the book's many lessons: 'Again, the key thing here is not the correctness of the published numbers per se, but their true meaning.'. Number Savvy gives you that 'true meaning'. -Paul T. Dickinson, McGill University.

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George Sciadas has worked in the public, private, and academic sectors. He’s well-known in statistical circles in Canada and internationally, having worked for more than three decades at Statistics Canada and international organizations, including in several executive capacities. He has also taught at universities for many years. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at McGill University, in Montreal. He has led many national and international projects, with research teams on all continents. He has authored numerous papers and monographs, and has been the editor of influential publications and compendia for many years.

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