A New York Times bestseller. Longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Every decade, there are a handful of books that change the way you look at everything. This is one of those books. Society has begun to reckon the change that big data will bring. This book is an incredibly important start.
Lawrence Lessig

Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and author of Remix and Free Culture

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody

Just as water is wet in a way that individual water molecules aren't, big data can reveal information in a way that individual bits of data can't. Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier show us the surprising ways that enormous, complex and messy collections of data can be used to predict everything from shopping patterns to flu outbreaks
Clay Shirky

author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody