Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

A fascinating audiobook that will appeal to fans of The Tipping Point and Freakonomics.

Can numbers really teach us more than years of human expertise? SUPER CRUNCHERS shows us why in this era of huge databases, a new breed of experts find patterns in our millions of easily accessible bytes of information and use these patterns to make astoundingly accurate predictions for the future. Ian Ayres shows how super-crunching and quantitative analysis don't just explain curious phenomenon, but are actually responsible for real world decisions. Ayres explores the meaning of this trend through a number of fascinating case studies, and in the process, he introduces listeners to a new way of thinking that will define the future of intelligent decision-making.

Ian Ayres shows how super-crunching and quantitative analysis don't just explain curious phenomenon, but are actually responsible for real world decisions.