Hannah Fry, mathématicienne, raconte des histoires du passé et interroge le présent pour rendre palpables les dimensions technologiques et sociétales de la gestion informatique des données, le Big Data. Ce sont l’histoire, la philosophie et les mathématiques qui viennent éclairer le sujet d’une manière singulière.

A witty, exhilarating and mind-expanding exploration of the word of our times – data – with mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four’s previous gleefully nerdy, award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats, Tails you Win - The Science of Chance and The Joy of Logic, this new high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry also tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.