Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee deadly infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment to buy a plane ticket, seeing inflation in real time and monitoring social media in order to ident Big Data - Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger od authora Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.