Data Rule!

Just finished reading 'The Numerati' by Stephen Barker (http://thenumerati.net/) - an interesting book about how data and data analysis are used in more and more different settings (business, health, counter terrorism, etc).

The topic is somewhat similar to Ian Ayres' 'Supercrunchers' (http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/) but Ayres' book goes a bit more in-depth into the different analytical methods which made it more interesting to me.

The importance of data and data analysis is also nicely illustrated in the TV series 'Numb3rs' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numb3rs