Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody Lies

Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking work, Harvard-trained economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues that much of what we thought about people has been dead wrong. The reason? People lie, to friends, lovers, doctors, surveys?and themselves. However, we no longer need to rely on what people tell us. New data from the internet finally reveals the truth. By analyzing this digital gold mine, we can now learn what people really think, what they really want, and what they really do. Everybody Lies combines the informed analysis of Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, the storytelling of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, and the wit and fun of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics in a book that will change the way you view the world. There is almost no limit to what can be learned about human nature from Big Data?provided, that is, you ask the right questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harlequin
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780062497499
• ISBN-10: 0062497499
• Artikelnr.: 44469417

Autorenporträt

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times, a lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard. His research has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.

Rezensionen

"This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind . . . an unprecedented peek into people's psyches . . . Time and again my preconceptions about my country and my species were turned upside-down by Stephens-Davidowitz's discoveries . . . endlessly fascinating." Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature