Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01AFXZ2F4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Smart, fun and fast-paced read, but overstates its case Ashutosh S. Jogalekar The basic thesis of "Everybody Lies" is that online data on human behavior, including Google searches and data from Facebook, shopping and pornographic sites, can reveal much about what we really think than data from surveys in which people might be too embarrassed to tell the truth. In our unguarded moments, when we are alone a. Excellent Bookclub Conversation Starter Amanda If you are like me, you wake up in a panic and google things at 4am and wonder, is it just me or does everyone else have weird secret google habits. Turns out, lots of people google their deep secrets (though most often at a more reasonable time of day).Seth Stephens-Davidowitz takes what we are all thinking about but never talk. A wonderful read. N. Jensen This is an important book.Books that tend to make big proclamations about social-science research either overshoot their marks or make for mind-numbing reads. (Or often, both.) Chapters are slogs to get through, and the authors just can’t help themselves and get overexcited about their work. And their everything-will chang
His research--which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviors and attitudes--has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor and former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard.
This brilliant book is the best demonstration yet of how big data plus cleverness can illuminate and then move the world. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz brings data analysis alive in a crisp, witty manner, providing a terrific introduction to how big data is shaping social science.” (Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics at Stanford University)“Everybody Lies is a spirited and enthralling examination of the data of our lives. Move over Moneyball. Read it and you’ll see life in a new way.” (Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Drawing on a wide variety of rev
With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable. Th