The Devil's Data Dictionary

Author: Jim Sterne

In this modern homage to Ambrose Bierce, Sterne tucks his tongue firmly in cheek and lets loose on an industry only Dilbert could love.

With a mix of wry humor and outlandish sarcasm Sterne hits the datarati upside the head with a well-worn humerus bone and puts the pun in pundit.

Lavishly illustrated by award-winning illustrator, Yevgenia Nayberg.

Big Data

Enterprise Data Warehouse

Meta Data

Load Balancing

Load Balancing

Entries in this devilish dictionary include:

• Algorithm: Regularly recurring remarks from the former U.S. V.P. who invented the Internet.
• Artificial Intelligence: Fourth cocktail.
• Big Data: Giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, yadda, yadda.
• Correlation: Coincidence confidently mistaken for cause.
• Covariant: A dependent couple with the same deviation.
• ... and that's just through the C's.

Perfect for the data-obsessed - and that might just be YOU!

98.7% funny
- Ashley Friedlein, Econsultancy

Funny and in some cases probably true.
-Jeff Jonas, IBM Fellow

Jim has made data accessible to the masses since the dawn of the digital age. And now, he's making it funny. And, awesome.
-Avinash Kaushik, Google. Author, Web Analytics 2.0

All the fun you need is here, from A to W. Is that the definition of "missing data?
-Thomas H. Davenport, Distinguished Professor, Babson College, Author, Competing on Analytics and Big Data @ Work

A masterpiece . . . I laughed, I cried, I - apparently - completely misunderstood everything about data and analytics.
-Ben Gaines, Adobe

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