Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00M284HDO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 437 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He charts the rise and fall of America's most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person's sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. Today, a new approach is possible. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are. Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves - a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.. An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior - and a first look at a revolution in the making. Data scientists have become the new demographers. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. For cent
"Teases out insights into how people honestly think about themselves and others" according to Walt Bristow. Big data has a bad name. It is used to spy on us and to convince us to buy things we do not need (and, we discover after parting with our money, that we often do not want). Nevertheless, big data - and the insight it gives into who we are - fascinates us.Christian Rudder is in a unique position to tell us a lot about ourselves. As a co-founder of OkCupid, he has access to the hearts and minds (and politics and food and drink) of millions of us. In Dataclysm, he slices, dices, and adds a bit of direction (and wit) to data that, he believes, reveals the inner soul of who we are.Here is a smattering of what you'll uncover in Datac. Diluted from the Blog David The author of Dataclysm preceded his book with a blog about interesting statistical trends from his website, OKCupid. Advertisements on the blog made Dataclysm look like a whole book's worth of blog posts.The blog was quite interesting. The data often spoke for itself, and comments from the author either clarified the data or added some wit and charm. The introductory chapter in Dataclysm touted these features and promised a departure from the norms of a social trends analysis. There was to be little reliance on isolated anecdotes and there was to be minimal hollow blather about the grandiose philosophical potentialities of the. Biz Book Reader said Much data, some information, little knowledge. This is a well-written book best suited to two groups of people: those interested in data but not much familiarity with analysis beyond the concept of averages and those interested in the ideas and issues that Rudder lightly touches on (gender, race, sexual orientation). Beyond that, though, this book doesn't have a lot to offer besides brief distractions. He intends it to be "a popularization of data and data science," which apparently means publishing a lot of "hey, this might be interesting" graphs to generate an audience. It's a shame, because there is a lot of quality content here that with more effort and ambition could h