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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.82 AVERAGE
664 reviews for:
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.82 AVERAGE
I read this book after the author was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. I enjoyed the book, though I can't say after reading it I took much away. There wasn't anything that really wowed me, but Seth's results and discussions from various data analysis were interesting.
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The bigger the effect, the fewer the number of observations necessary to see it. You only need to touch a hot stove once to realise that it’s dangerous. You may need to drink coffee thousands of times to determine whether it tends to give you a headache
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are is written by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a New York Times op-ed contributor and former Google data scientist. He is a graduate from Stanford and a post-doc in economics from Harvard.
This book is not about the TV series ‘House’ even though it uses the same catchphrase. Everybody Lies covers the power and implications of Big Data. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz calls his book the next level of Freakonomics. Some of the insights this books are as follows
1. We are inherently racist even in this day and age. We talk the right things but act differently. He demonstrates, using the data from Trump election, that while Americans told pollsters and surveys that they opposed his policies, this did not reflect in their voting patterns.
2.The data tells us that a man has a significantly improved chance of reaching the NBA if he is born in a middle class family who is reasonably well off and in a wealthy county. This goes against our usual thought process that people from economically disadvantaged classes are more likely to make it in big league sports like cricket or basketball.
3. Violent movies actually bring down crime.
4. The best educational institutions do not make it any easier to succeed. People who tend to succeed join them. The cause and effect are contrary to what we think.
5. People who invoke God are more likely to default on loans.
6. Everybody lies, especially on Facebook
7. Immigration accelerates success.
The bigger the effect, the fewer the number of observations necessary to see it. You only need to touch a hot stove once to realise that it’s dangerous. You may need to drink coffee thousands of times to determine whether it tends to give you a headache
What is the book about?
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are is written by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a New York Times op-ed contributor and former Google data scientist. He is a graduate from Stanford and a post-doc in economics from Harvard.
This book is not about the TV series ‘House’ even though it uses the same catchphrase. Everybody Lies covers the power and implications of Big Data. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz calls his book the next level of Freakonomics. Some of the insights this books are as follows
1. We are inherently racist even in this day and age. We talk the right things but act differently. He demonstrates, using the data from Trump election, that while Americans told pollsters and surveys that they opposed his policies, this did not reflect in their voting patterns.
2.The data tells us that a man has a significantly improved chance of reaching the NBA if he is born in a middle class family who is reasonably well off and in a wealthy county. This goes against our usual thought process that people from economically disadvantaged classes are more likely to make it in big league sports like cricket or basketball.
3. Violent movies actually bring down crime.
4. The best educational institutions do not make it any easier to succeed. People who tend to succeed join them. The cause and effect are contrary to what we think.
5. People who invoke God are more likely to default on loans.
6. Everybody lies, especially on Facebook
7. Immigration accelerates success.
Good as an audiobook. He said Freakonomics motivated him to get a PhD in Economics and this was basically Freakonomics for the new century.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book - perhaps a tad too many baseball mentions but overall it was fascinating. Google really does know everything!
The premiss (focused mostly on America) is to show how Big Data helps us to understand human nature in ways we never have been able to before. Everybody lies (thus the title): to themselves, to pollsters, on social media etc. But home alone with your anonymity and google - what are you typing into that search bar?
The millions of searches paint a far more accurate picture of what America hates, likes, enjoys, and thinks about than any other data and that ‘big data’ can be used for lots of good: medical diagnosis, stopping child abuse, proving that attending the best school instead of a solid one actually have little effect on future incomes, etc.
An ongoing theme throughout the novel is how big data predicted Trump’s ride to victory on the wave of racism that already existed, not that he created and that really ‘zooming into’ Big Data is where the heaps of information can be found.
I hope we get more from this author and his mind-blowing work!
The premiss (focused mostly on America) is to show how Big Data helps us to understand human nature in ways we never have been able to before. Everybody lies (thus the title): to themselves, to pollsters, on social media etc. But home alone with your anonymity and google - what are you typing into that search bar?
The millions of searches paint a far more accurate picture of what America hates, likes, enjoys, and thinks about than any other data and that ‘big data’ can be used for lots of good: medical diagnosis, stopping child abuse, proving that attending the best school instead of a solid one actually have little effect on future incomes, etc.
An ongoing theme throughout the novel is how big data predicted Trump’s ride to victory on the wave of racism that already existed, not that he created and that really ‘zooming into’ Big Data is where the heaps of information can be found.
I hope we get more from this author and his mind-blowing work!
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Smart and entertaining. Good and simple book about big data analysis with real cases