A review by elizanne24
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

I liked the premise, the concepts and (most of) the humor and the conversational writing style. Sometimes after reading books in this vein I think "this should have been a longform article" but I did think it had substance and enough interesting information to merit 280-odd pages.

At times, it veered to closely to tawdry sensationalism, and I noted that the chapter on sex, porn and body insecurities was longer than the discussion of ethical implications of big data. That felt 'off' to me.

Lots of interesting factoids, interesting exploration of methods (but very high level on data analysis techniques overall).