Kniga sostoit iz zanimatel′nych istorij o razgadyvanii paradoksov social′noj zhizni s pomoshh′yu metodov prikladnoj statistiki i iskusstvennogo intellekta. Ona rasschitana na lyuboznatel′nych chitatelej, interesuyushhichsya kak ustroen okruzhayushhij mir i stremyashhichsya samostoyatel′no otkryvat′ ego tajny. Kniga mozhet sluzhit′ vvodnym kursom v statisticheskij i intellektual′nyj analiz dannych, a takzhe podspor′em dlya demografov, politologov, sociologov, ekonomistov. Dlya ponimaniya soderzhaniya knigi ot chitatelya dostatochno znanij shkol′nogo kursa matematiki. Klyuchevye slova: prikladnaya statistika, iskusstvennyj intellekt, samoobuchayushhiesya seti (karty) Kochonena, demografiya, gosudarstvennoe upravlenie, obshhestvennaya moral′, futbolometrika, astrologiya, prognozirovanie politicheskich vyborov, social′nye seti, bol′shie dannye, menedzhment. The book consists of entertaining stories about solving the paradoxes of social life using methods of applied statistics and artificial intelligence. It is designed for curious readers who are interested in how the world around them works and who seek to discover its secrets on their own. The book can serve as an introductory course in statistical and data mining, as well as help for demographers, political scientists, sociologists, economists. To understand the content of the book from the reader, a school course in mathematics is enough. Keywords: applied statistics, artificial intelligence, Kohonen self-organizing maps, demography, public administration, public morality, soccermetrics, astrology, forecasting of political elections, social networks, big data, management.