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# Free Sample of Too Big to Ignore
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/download-a-free-sample-of-my-new-book/
- Published: 2013-01-30T15:06:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-20T22:36:54.000Z
- Description: What do potholes and car insurance have to do with Big Data?
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Big Data, Too Big to Ignore

![Too Big to Ignore](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/too-big-to-ignore1-6.png)

My publisher (John Wiley & Sons) is allowing me to make the 28-page Introduction of [*Too Big to Ignore*](https://tinyurl.com/phil-amazon5?ref=philsimon.com) available for free download. The Introduction provides the structure for the rest of the book and details a few interesting ways in which organizations are using Big Data.

Knock yourself out.