Bibliograph

Everybody lies, big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Everybody lies, big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everybody lies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

985108386

Responsibility statement

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Sub title

big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are

Summary

A former Google data scientist presents an insider's look at what the vast, instantly available amounts of information from the Internet can reveal about human civilization and society

Table Of Contents

Part I: Data, big and small. Your faulty gut -- Part II: The powers of big data. Was Freud right? -- Data reimagined -- Digital truth serum -- Zooming in -- All the world's a lab -- Part III: Big data: handle with care. Big data, big schmata? What it cannot do -- Mo data, mo problems? What we shouldn't do -- Conclusion: how many people finish books?

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