This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Does Data Get Use, And Misused?
This is a list about data. Its use, misuse, and how it becomes interpreted.
Data, And Data's Limitations:
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
Use:
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
- The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Mastering 'metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
Misuse:
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb