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

4.0

A bit surprised by the negative reviews for this book, but I guess I can see where the frustration is coming from. I think your opinion will, in part, be shaped by what you're hoping to get out of this book. As a person who works with data, I found this book helpful in two ways:

1) The book highlights data sources and ways that they can be used that I hadn't thought about before. I could imagine this helping me out with feature engineering for machine learning models or analytics that I might work on in the future. The "creative" part of data is knowing where to look, and for the less creative folks of the world