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

3.0

I like books on how data is used, both to educate and influence us. This is an interesting book with an interesting premise that we only 'tell the truth or can find the truth' from Google search data. I'm not sure I fully buy in to the author's contention that Google data holds the truth to big questions of how its users feel about sex, politics, and race. There are interesting data on a number of topics and some potential correlations, but the author seems too sure of his argument that we always lie to each other, but not Google. That said, it's an interesting read with interesting data, so it's worth a read, but keep an open mind.