Big Data, Big Dupe is a little book about a big bunch of nonsense. The
story of David and Goliath inspires us to hope that something little,
when armed with truth, can topple something big that is a lie. This is
the author's hope. While others have written about the dangers of Big
Data, Stephen Few reveals the deceit that belies its illusory nature. If
"data is the new oil," Big Data is the new snake oil. It isn't real.
It's a marketing campaign that has distracted us for years from the real
and important work of deriving value from data.