How Does Data Get Use, And Misused?

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: 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:

• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
• Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul

General Application:

• [Upcoming] A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett

Use:

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
• The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
• Mastering 'metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
• Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
• Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
• Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
• The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
• Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann

Misuse:

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
• Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
• Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
• The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
• Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
• [Upcoming] Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill