Super Crunchers

By:
Ian Ayers
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2008
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With real-life examples from sports, medicine, online dating, and airline pricing, Ayres describes how data about all of us is collected and “crunched” by statisticians and computers to profile consumers benefitting both the consumer and the companies interested in selling to them.

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