Ranked: How Does Data Get Use, And Misused?

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:

  1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  2. Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul


Use:

  1. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
  2. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  3. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
  4. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  5. Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
  6. The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
  7. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
  8. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
  9. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  10. Mastering 'metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
  11. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  12. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
  13. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben

Misuse:

  1. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
  2. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  3. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  4. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  5. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  6. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  7. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  9. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  10. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  11. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb