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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
An interesting book to have read after taking a social statistics class this last semester. I don’t agree with all his conclusions about the future of research and I would like to see additional evidence for some of his research but overall an interesting book.
While I enjoyed this book, I have read other similar books that I believe cover many of the same topics better. But still worth the read.
This book really just suffers from not being published in 2005. It's solid and thought provoking, but when the best way to describe a book is Signal and the Noise meets Outliers meets Freakonomics, it's safe to say you're in extremely well-tread territory.
Interesting book that doesn't take itself too seriously. The author is self-deprecating, his research revealing (often devastatingly so), and the stories veer either towards bleakly dark or painfully hilarious. Who knew that Google searches could reveal so many discrepancies between who we are, who we think we are, and who we want to be ? (Ok and granted, I like learning about these juicy findings but the level of data-mining in the book was also a bit alarming and another reason to stay off the internet).