The Little Book of Data
Understanding the Powerful Analytics That Drive AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
The Little Book of Data
Resérvalo en preventa por $22.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Justin Evans
-
De:
-
Justin Evans
Acerca de esta escucha
Read by the author.
Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.
Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and civic life, every professional and citizen needs to harness this power.
In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”
The stories are told in a fast-moving, vivid, sometimes comic style, and cover a wide frame of reference from adtech to climate tech, the bubonic plague, tiny submarines, genomics, railroads, bond ratings, and meat grading. (That’s right. Meat.)
Along the way Evans injects lessons from his own career journey and offers practical thought-starters for listeners to apply to their own organizations.
By listening to The Little Book of Data, you will achieve the fluency to apply your data superpowers to your own mission and challenges—and you will have fun along the way.
You will be, in other words, a data person.
©2025 Justin Evans (P)2025 HarperCollins LeadershipLas personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Goliath's Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- De: Luke Kemp
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Stepping back to look at our precariously interdependent global society of today—with the threat of nuclear war ever present, the world getting hotter and hotter, and the rapid creation of dangerous algorithms—one couldn’t be blamed for asking: Will we make it? Addressing this question with the seriousness it demands, Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp conducts a historical autopsy that stretches over 300,000 years, from our beginnings as a species to early attempts at cities to Egypt, Rome, and on into our cloudy future.
De: Luke Kemp
-
Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- De: Karen Hao
- Narrado por: Karen Hao
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?
De: Karen Hao
-
Whack Job
- A History of Axe Murder
- De: Rachel McCarthy James
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pickens
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
the amount of research that it took
- De Anonymous User en 05-18-25
-
Project Mind Control
- Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
- De: John Lisle
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
De: John Lisle
-
Authority
- Essays
- De: Andrea Long Chu
- Narrado por: Andrea Long Chu
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers. Authority brings together Chu’s critical work across a wide range of media—novels, television, theater, video games—as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n+1.
De: Andrea Long Chu
-
Murderland
- Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
- De: Caroline Fraser
- Narrado por: Patty Nieman
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?
De: Caroline Fraser
-
Goliath's Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- De: Luke Kemp
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Stepping back to look at our precariously interdependent global society of today—with the threat of nuclear war ever present, the world getting hotter and hotter, and the rapid creation of dangerous algorithms—one couldn’t be blamed for asking: Will we make it? Addressing this question with the seriousness it demands, Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp conducts a historical autopsy that stretches over 300,000 years, from our beginnings as a species to early attempts at cities to Egypt, Rome, and on into our cloudy future.
De: Luke Kemp
-
Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- De: Karen Hao
- Narrado por: Karen Hao
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?
De: Karen Hao
-
Whack Job
- A History of Axe Murder
- De: Rachel McCarthy James
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pickens
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
the amount of research that it took
- De Anonymous User en 05-18-25
-
Project Mind Control
- Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
- De: John Lisle
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
De: John Lisle
-
Authority
- Essays
- De: Andrea Long Chu
- Narrado por: Andrea Long Chu
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead modeling how the left might brave the culture wars without throwing in with the cynics and doomsayers. Authority brings together Chu’s critical work across a wide range of media—novels, television, theater, video games—as well as an acclaimed tetralogy of literary essays first published in n+1.
De: Andrea Long Chu
-
Murderland
- Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
- De: Caroline Fraser
- Narrado por: Patty Nieman
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?
De: Caroline Fraser
-
Searches
- Selfhood in the Digital Age
- De: Vauhini Vara
- Narrado por: Vauhini Vara, Anastasia Davidson
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to build machines that could not only communicate, but could do all kinds of other activities, better than humans ever could. But was this goal actually achievable? And if reached, would it lead to our liberation or our subjugation?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I think the title sums this complex book up well!
- De irontri455 en 05-07-25
De: Vauhini Vara
-
Death
- Only for Those Who Shall Die--a Yogi's Guide to Living, Dying, and Beyond
- De: Sadhguru
- Narrado por: Sadhguru
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Death is an inevitable part of our lives, yet most societies have struggled to come to terms with it. Today, we continue to grapple with the enduring questions: What is death? Why do we fear it? What happens after death? Is it an end or a doorway to something beyond? In this unique, clear-sighted exploration of death, Sadhguru dwells extensively upon his inner experience as he expounds on the deeper aspects of death that are rarely spoken about.
De: Sadhguru
-
Aggregated Discontent
- Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
- De: Harron Walker
- Narrado por: Harron Walker
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
In sixteen wholly original essays that blend memoir, cultural criticism, investigative journalism, and a dash of fanfiction, Walker places her own experiences within the larger context of the pressing and underdiscussed aspects of contemporary American womanhood that make up daily life. She explores the allure and violence of assimilating into white womanhood in all its hegemonic glory, exposes the ways in which the truth of trans women's reproductive healthcare is erased in favor of reactionary narratives, and considers how our agency is stripped from us—purely on account of our bodies.
De: Harron Walker
-
Ocean
- Earth's Last Wilderness
- De: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
- Narrado por: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe. The book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they are the part of our world that can, and in some cases has, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing works
- De Klein Moretti en 05-16-25
De: Sir David Attenborough, y otros
-
When the Harvest Comes
- A Novel
- De: Denne Michele Norris
- Narrado por: L Morgan Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man’s name with tenderness. But on the eve of his wedding, all Davis can think about is how beautiful he wants to look when he meets his beloved Everett at the altar. Never mind that his mother, who died decades before, and his father, whose anger drove Davis to flee their home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, for a freer life in New York City, won’t be there to walk him down the aisle.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Beautiful
- De Elizabeth en 04-18-25
-
Corked with Marc Fennell
- De: Marc Fennell
- Narrado por: Marc Fennell
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.
De: Marc Fennell
-
Friends of the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Heather McGowan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum’s lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride. Diane has sacrificed many things in her life to help the fading institution stave off irrelevance and financial ruin. In this battle, she’s surrounded by her stalwart supporters and a motley assortment of museum employees, each on the precipice of collapse or revelation.
De: Heather McGowan
-
Miracles and Wonder
- The Historical Mystery of Jesus
- De: Elaine Pagels
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
I had high hopes for this title
- De Christine en 04-02-25
De: Elaine Pagels
-
The Incandescent
- De: Emily Tesh
- Narrado por: Zara Ramm
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Walden is good at her job—no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from—is herself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
My favorite book of the year
- De lsrygl en 05-15-25
De: Emily Tesh
-
The Lives of the Caesars
- De: Suetonius, Tom Holland - introduction translator
- Narrado por: Justin Avoth, Tom Holland
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biographies invite us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than those by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the center of Rome and power, in the early 2nd century AD. By placing each Caesar in the context of the generations that had gone before, and connecting personality with policy, Suetonius succeeded in painting Rome’s ultimate portraits of power.
De: Suetonius, y otros
-
Mark Twain
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 44 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 6
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another great book
- De Terry Hubbard en 05-17-25
De: Ron Chernow
-
The Staircase in the Woods
- De: Chuck Wendig
- Narrado por: Jay Myers, Amber Benson, Xe Sands
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I was finally actually afraid
- De Anonymous User en 05-02-25
De: Chuck Wendig