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

5.0

If the ideas of Noah Yuval Harari interest you, especially how the revolution in AI will affect individuals and society, here is a great introduction to the power that Big Data and the insights that can be gleaned from it. It is well written, given the complexity of the subject, and you'll be thinking about the various areas it covers for a long time. One of the more interesting things is that now, with Big Data, the so-called "soft sciences" such as psychology and sociology, for instance, can be put on a firmly quantitative footing. Without giving anything away, we've all heard the expression "Freudian slip". So is that something that is real or more of an insight into Freud's mind? Read the book to find out!