Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

3.82 AVERAGE

connect4mary's review

5.0
funny informative fast-paced
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aharman13's review

4.0
Super interesting analysis of big data vs self-proclaimed behaviors.
Definitely aimed towards the type As who find freakonomics exciting.
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possiblyfractal's review

4.5
funny informative medium-paced

jessicaharvey422's review

4.0
informative medium-paced
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dhrutigopaluni's review

3.25
medium-paced

canadianoranges's review against another edition

5.0
Feels very much like Freakonomics, if Freakonomics were focused mostly on porn.

The author admits as much in the conclusion.
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elenecooke's review

5.0
Brilliant. Changed the entire way that I do my job. It is a fresh approach to data science in the digital marketing world.
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chlkvnck's review

informative fast-paced

realz's review

4.0
This was quick and easy read. Being in cloud computing industry, none of what Seth mentions was news to me. But I found the writing very honest and entertaining. I loved that often times Seth recapped and reminded readers of what the initial purpose of some of the studies he quoted was which made it easier to follow the subject matter.

In my opinion, I would agree with Seth that Everybody Lies is a good follow up to Freakonomics.

anubhasy's review against another edition

4.0
An eye opener.