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Fact Forward
- Author
- Dan Gaylin
- Narrator
- Shawn Compton
- Publisher
- Ascent Audio
- Publish Date
- 28 October 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Solutions to increase trust and empower better decision making in a data-rich world
Fact Forward: The Perils of Bad Information and the Promise of a Data-Savvy Society explores how a growing deluge of data has led to a data-rich world with abundant new opportunities and a precipitous decline in trust due to the problems we face in producing, communicating, and consuming data. This book takes listeners on a journey through the data ecosystem, showing how data producers, data consumers, and data disseminators all have a role to play in creating a more data-savvy society.
Written by Dan Gaylin, president and CEO of NORC at the University of Chicago, a leading research organization in the field of social science and data science, this book demonstrates the urgent need for:
- greater transparency on the part of data producers
- increased data literacy on the part of data communicators and data consumers
- a societal commitment to data education and infrastructure
Fact Forward earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of leaders across industries and all individuals who want to build a better society and world by improving the way we present, analyze, and make use of data.
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Details
- Author
- Dan Gaylin
- Narrator
- Shawn Compton
- Duration
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781663755162
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ascent Audio
- Genre
- Central / national / federal government policies, Management and management techniques, Public opinion and polls
Synopsis
Solutions to increase trust and empower better decision making in a data-rich worldFact Forward: The Perils of Bad Information and the Promise of a Data-Savvy Society explores how a growing deluge of data has led to a data-rich world with abundant new opportunities and a precipitous decline in trust due to the problems we face in producing, communicating, and consuming data. This book takes listeners on a journey through the data ecosystem, showing how data producers, data consumers, and data disseminators all have a role to play in creating a more data-savvy society.Written by Dan Gaylin, president and CEO of NORC at the University of Chicago, a leading research organization in the field of social science and data science, this book demonstrates the urgent need for:greater transparency on the part of data producersincreased data literacy on the part of data communicators and data consumersa societal commitment to data education and infrastructureFact Forward earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of leaders across industries and all individuals who want to build a better society and world by improving the way we present, analyze, and make use of data.
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