What the Numbers SayBy: Derrick Niederman, David Boyum Our society is churning out more numbers than ever before, whether in the form of spreadsheets, brokerage statements, survey results, or just the numbers on the sports pages. Unfortunately, peoples ability to understand and analyze numbers isnt keeping pace with todays whizzing data streams. And the benefits of living in the Information Age are available only to those who can process the information in front of them.