Harper Business: Steve Lohr

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Meet the Author: Steve Lohr

Author Bio and Details

Steve Lohr has covered technology, business, and economics for the New York Times for more than twenty years and writes for the Times' Bits blog. In 2013 he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He was a foreign correspondent for a decade and served as an editor, and has written for national publications such as the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and the Washington Monthly. He is the author of Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts—the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution. He lives in New York City.

Books by Steve Lohr

Data-ism

The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

Steve Lohr

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world. Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Data-ism is about this next phase, in which vast, Internet-scale data sets are used for discovery and prediction in virtually every field. Lohr explains how… More »