A review by stag1e
Dataclysm: Who We Are by Christian Rudder

4.0

My main gripe with this book is that I think that it is way, way too much oriented towards americans. I really don't know much of the events that the author is talking about and I think that certain conclusions in the book wouldn't be true if one would conduct the same analysis in, for example, a European country or in a Asian country. Other than that, I think it is a great book that shines a bright light of our inherent humanly biases, how far we still have to go to get rid of racism, and so on. The author concludes with some prose about dragnet surveillance, Snowden, and about what we can get out of data science. The future really looks bright and I hope that we will get a lot of good value of out of it. I would recommend this book to anyone that has a social media account and for budding data scientists to wet their appetite.