Name: Super Crunchers
ISBN: 9780553384734

Ian Ayres

Touting the benefits of detailed statistical analysis, an economist explains how sorting through mass quantities of easily stored information can offer greater insight into human behavior for businesses, governments, and consumers.

Why Thinking-by-numbers is the New Way to be Smart

Super Crunchers

Arturo Hernández

This feels like a nice introductory book to the world of data and the possibilities it presents.

Perhaps it’s because it’s not natural to think about data and certain industries that the examples this book presents are quite shocking, they talk about medicine, lending, justice and more. 

Overall it’s a nice first chapter for a number crunching way of thinking.

Touting the benefits of detailed statistical analysis, an economist explains how by sorting through mass quantities of easily stored and sorted information, businesses, governments, and consumers can achieve greater insight into human behavior and use it to predict future trends. 75,000 first printing.

Aaron Bach

Freakonomics 2.0, this is not. Unfortunately, Ian Ayres only occasionally manages to capture the spark and charisma that Steven Levitt so easily wielded in Freakonomics. 

Much of this book is spent reiterating previously made points (if I have to hear about regressions' ability to explain results AND error factor one more time, I'm going to scream). Ayers frequently trails off into personal opinion, something that is grossly distracting and serves only to shine a light on Super Crunchers' more solid "cousin."

Do yourself a favor: read Freakonomics and avoid Super Crunchers. You won't miss anything.

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-numbers is the New Way to be Smart

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