Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do

(McGraw Hill) The author looks at how data-driven decisions affect us all and tries to help readers understand what the numbers really mean. He examines how statistics affect your job, health, money, food, and success and sheds light on how the laws of statistics quietly run our daily lives. A statistician and an adjunct professor at New York University, Fung is also known as the Junk Charts blogger. His blog (http://junkcharts.typepad.com) looks at how mass media uses data and graphics to communicate with the public.