Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us about who We Really are

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018 - Big data - 352 pages
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A former Google data scientist presents an insider's look at what the vast, instantly available amounts of information from the Internet can reveal about human civilization and society.

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User Review  - Kavinay - LibraryThing

The upshot of this book is not that big data is the holy grail. Rather, the recurring theme in all of Stephens-Davidowitz's interesting examples is just that most self-reporting is awful. I'm still ... Read full review

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User Review  - lpg3d - LibraryThing

While this book is a somewhat sort and easy read, it is nevertheless an important read. Big data is everywhere now, and many of the details of our lives are now recorded in databases. [b:Everybody ... Read full review

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About the author (2018)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a 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. His research - which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes - has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.sethsd.com / @SethS_D

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