Data for Everyone: A Simple Guide to Using Data to Make Better Everyday Decisions

By Charles Spark

"Data for Everyone: A Simple Guide to Using Data to Make Better Everyday Decisions" by Charles Spark is an accessible, empowering primer on data literacy for non-experts. Published in 2025, this 99-page book demystifies data, showing how it's integral to daily life-from checking weather apps to budgeting expenses. Spark bridges the data literacy gap by explaining why data matters, fostering a "data detective" mindset, and teaching how to spot reliable sources while avoiding biases and myths.

Divided into five parts, it covers practical applications: personal finance (tracking budgets to save thousands), health (using fitness trackers for better energy), relationships (analyzing social patterns ethically), professional growth (optimizing schedules with market trends), and community decisions (citizen projects for social good). Readers learn beginner tools like Google Sheets, basic analysis techniques, data visualization for storytelling, and strategies to overcome "data anxiety." Each chapter includes real-world case studies, exercises, and ethical considerations, emphasizing balanced judgment over pure numbers.

Ideal for parents, professionals, and retirees, the book builds confidence through step-by-step guidance, appendices with glossaries and templates, and a vision for lifelong data use. It's not about becoming a statistician but harnessing data for smarter, more informed living in an information-saturated world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4GQL3C4
• ISBN13: 9798276566894
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"