New Releases by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is the author of Warum Sie Ihrem Bauchgefühl weniger trauen sollten (2023), Who Makes the NBA (2023), 别相信直觉 (2023), Nie ufaj swojej intuicji (2023), Não Confie nos Instintos (2022).

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Warum Sie Ihrem Bauchgefühl weniger trauen sollten

release date: May 21, 2023
Warum Sie Ihrem Bauchgefühl weniger trauen sollten
Daten schlagen Intuition Entscheidungen treffen ist nicht immer leicht. Im Zweifel entscheiden viele dabei nach Bauchgefühl. Was sich gut anfühlt, wird schließlich auch gut sein, oder? Doch unsere Intuition ist weit weniger zuverlässig, als wir glauben, wie Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in seinem Buch unterhaltsam belegt. Der frühere Google-Datenwissenschaftler und Bestsellerautor zeigt auf Basis der neuesten Big-Data-Forschung und anhand von vielen lustigen Anekdoten, wie leicht wir oft falschliegen, wenn es darum geht, instinktiv die richtige Wahl zu treffen. Von überraschenden Erfolgsstrategien beim Dating bis hin zu außergewöhnlichen Karriereboostern – sein Buch ist voll von verblüffenden Erkenntnissen darüber, was uns Daten, auch über uns selbst, verraten, und wie sie unser Leben zuverlässig einfacher machen.

Who Makes the NBA

release date: Jan 01, 2023
Who Makes the NBA
Who Makes The NBA helps answer some of the biggest questions in basketball. And, as an added bonus, you can learn best tips for using generative AI in creative pursuits.

Nie ufaj swojej intuicji

release date: Jan 01, 2023

Não Confie nos Instintos

release date: Oct 31, 2022
Não Confie nos Instintos
As grandes decisões são difíceis. Consultamos amigos e familiares, tentamos entender-nos no meio de conselhos confusos de especialistas online, talvez até possamos ler um livro de desenvolvimento pessoal para nos guiar. Mas, no final, geralmente fazemos o que nos parece o mais certo, almejando a perfeição através de apostas de alto risco com base apenas no que os nossos instintos nos dizem. E se os nossos instintos estiverem errados?

數據、真相與人生:前Google資料科學家用大數據,找出致富、職涯與婚姻的人生解答

數據、真相與人生:前Google資料科學家用大數據,找出致富、職涯與婚姻的人生解答
◆《數據、謊言與真相》作者再次重磅出擊!◆ 最會說故事的資料科學家, 用最幽默的語句、最驚奇的發現, 告訴你大數據不只是工作的利器,更是讓人生升級的工具! 我們不只對朋友、對另一半、對主管說謊,甚至也對自己說謊── 前Google資料科學家賽斯‧史蒂芬斯—大衛德維茲, 利用「永不說謊」的大數據,親自為你探索人生的各種重大問題! 從戀愛、婚姻、理財、教養到工作, 真正的成功關鍵,絕對跟我們想像中截然不同! 如果《數據、謊言與真相》用大數據揭露了世界的真相; 本書將用這些真相,教你做出更好的人生決定! ※關於尋找對象的人生解答 ‧交友網站的致勝密碼除了長相好看,居然還包括長相獨特──藍色頭髮甚至大光頭! ‧越級打怪的成功率其實沒有想像中低,最缺乏魅力的人越級打怪,至少有15%~35%的機率收到回覆! ‧跟交往長久有正相關的不是身高、職業與外貌,而是成長思維與安全依附! →長相不如人,就盡量讓自己與眾不同;然後把焦點放在對方的內在而非外在素質。 ※關於創業致富的人生解答 ‧財富位居全美0.1%的人中,84%至少有部分收入來自自己的事業! ‧根據稅務大數據,最容易致富的六大產業是──房地產、投資、汽車經銷商、獨立創作公司、市場調查、中盤商,因為它們能夠「規避價格競爭」! ‧別被聳動報導騙了!資深圈內人自立門戶,才是創業成功率最高的一群。 →選擇對的領域創業,再加上在專精領域的足夠優勢,就能大幅提升職涯成功率。 ※關於教養子女的人生解答 ‧在健康狀況、未來收入、教育程度……等方面,父母對子女的影響都出奇地小! ‧孟母三遷是對的?!選對小孩的成長環境,就能讓孩子的未來收入成長12%! →你讓孩子接觸到哪些人,比起為他做的任何決定,更可能改變他的一生。 從提升幸福感到掌握致富關鍵,你的直覺可能都是錯的! 本書將告訴你如何用數據找出成功索引,靠數據覓得人生解答!

Don't Trust Your Gut

release date: May 10, 2022
Don't Trust Your Gut
"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force—an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity.” — Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing “expert” advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes self-improvement—such as who we marry, how to date, where to live, what makes us happy—based solely on what our gut instinct tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased, unpredictable, and misinformed, our gut, it turns out, is not all that reliable. And data can prove this. In Don’t Trust Your Gut, economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own lives. In the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life’s biggest self-help puzzles. Data from hundreds of thousands of dating profiles have revealed surprising successful strategies to get a date; data from hundreds of millions of tax records have uncovered the best places to raise children; data from millions of career trajectories have found previously unknown reasons why some rise to the top. Telling fascinating, unexpected stories with these numbers and the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz exposes that, while we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers disagree. Hard facts and figures consistently contradict our instincts and demonstrate self-help that actually works—whether it involves the best time in life to start a business or how happy it actually makes us to skip a friend’s birthday party for a night of Netflix on the couch. From the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to the old-school, data-backed relationship advice so well-worn it’s become a literal joke, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Lively, engrossing, and provocative, the end result opens up a new world of self-improvement made possible with massive troves of data. Packed with fresh, entertaining insights, Don’t Trust Your Gut redefines how to tackle our most consequential choices, one that hacks the market inefficiencies of life and leads us to make smarter decisions about how to improve our lives. Because in the end, the numbers don’t lie.

Toda a Gente Mente - Grandes Dados, Novos Dados e o Que a Internet Nos Diz Sobre Quem Realmente Somo

release date: Aug 01, 2020
Toda a Gente Mente - Grandes Dados, Novos Dados e o Que a Internet Nos Diz Sobre Quem Realmente Somo
Nesta obra ousada, Seth Stephens Davidowitz, economista formado por Harvard, defende que muito do que pensávamos sobre as pessoas está completamente errado. Qual o motivo? Toda a gente mente, aos amigos, parceiros de negócio, médicos,nas pesquisas, nas redes sociais e para si próprio. Assim, não precisamos de confiar no que as pessoas nos dizem. Novos dados da internet finalmente revelam a verdade. Ao analisar essa mina de ouro digital, podemos agora descobrir o que as pessoas realmente pensam, querem e fazem. "Toda a Gente Mente" combina a análise informada de "The Signal and the Noise", de Nate Silver (estatístico americano, conhecido por ter previsto correctamente os resultados das eleição presidenciais americanas de 2008 e 2012), o storytelling de "Outliers" (neste livro, o autor faz a pergunta - ''O que torna grandes conquistadores pessoas diferentes?), de Malcolm Gladwell, e a sagacidade e diversão de "Freakonomics - O Estranho Mundo da Economia - O lado escondido de todas as coisas", de Steven Levitt e Stephen Dubner. Um livro que mudará a forma de encarar o mundo, a capacidade de aprendizagem sobre a natureza humana a partir de Big Data que é praticamente ilimitada, basta fazer as perguntas certas.

Todo el mundo miente

release date: Apr 22, 2019
Todo el mundo miente
En un día promedio de principios del siglo xxi, los seres humanos que buscan en Internet acumulan ocho billones de gigabytes de datos. Esta asombrosa cantidad de información puede decirnos mucho sobre quiénes somos, los miedos, deseos y comportamientos que nos impulsan y las decisiones conscientes e inconscientes que tomamos. De lo profundo a lo mundano, podemos obtener un asombroso conocimiento sobre la psique humana que hace menos de veinte años parecía insondable. Stephens-Davidowitz nos ofrece información fascinante, sorprendente y a menudo graciosa, sobre temas que van desde la economía hasta la ética, los deportes, el sexo, etc. Todo ello extraído del mundo del big data. A partir de estudios y experimentos sobre cómo vivimos y pensamos realmente, el autor demuestra en qué medida todo el mundo es un laboratorio. Con conclusiones que van desde lo extraño pero cierto hasta lo provocador y lo perturbador, explora el poder de este suero de la verdad digital y su potencial más profundo, revelando sesgos profundamente arraigados en nosotros; una información que sin duda podemos utilizar para cambiar nuestra cultura. La influencia del big data se está multiplicando exponencialmente, y Stephens-Davidowitz nos desafía a pensar de una manera diferente sobre el mundo y la forma en que lo vemos.

Každý klame

release date: Jan 01, 2019
Každý klame
Každý klame ponúka fascinujúce, prekvapujúce a niekedy aj smiešne nahliadnutia do všetkého, od ekonómie po etiku, šport, od rasy po pohlavie a ďalšie, všetky čerpané zo sveta Big data. Aké percento bielych voličov nehlasovalo za Baracka Obamu, pretože je čierny? Ovplyvňuje to, kam chodíte do školy, akí ste v živote úspešní? Uprednostňujú rodičia tajne synov pred dcérami? Ovplyvňujú násilné filmy mieru kriminality? Dokážete poraziť akciový trh? Ako pravidelne klameme o našom sexuálnom živote a kto si menej verí, keď ide o sex, muži alebo ženy? Seth Stephens-Davidowitz skúma tieto otázky a ponúka odhalenia, ktoré nám môžu pomôcť lepšie porozumieť sebe a nášmu životu. Odhaľuje predpojatosti hlboko zabudované v nás, informácie, ktoré môžeme použiť na zmenu našej kultúry, a otázky, ktoré sa bojíme opýtať a ktoré by mohli mať zásadný význam pre naše zdravie – psychické aj fyzické. Každý z nás je obklopený Veľkými dátami a ich vplyv sa znásobuje. Každý klame nás vyzýva, aby sme premýšľali inak o tom, ako vidíme svet. „Stephens-Davidowitz, bývalý dátový analytik v spoločnosti Google, strávil posledné štyri roky skúmaním údajov o internetovom vyhľadávaní... Zistil, že údaje o internetovom vyhľadávaní môžu byť svätým grálom, pokiaľ ide o pochopenie skutočnej povahy ľudstva.“ (New York Post) „Empirické zistenia v knihe Každý klame sú také zaujímavé, že kniha by bola pútavá, aj keby bola štruktúrovaná ako obyčajný zoznam bielizne.“ (The Economist)

Wszyscy kłamią

release date: Jan 01, 2019
Wszyscy kłamią
How much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from daughters? How many people actually read the books they buy? In this work, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a Harvard-trained economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times writer, 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 -- the traces of information that billions of people leave on Google, social media, dating, and even pornography sites -- finally reveals the truth. By analyzing this digital goldmine, we can now learn what people really think, what they really want, and what they really do. Sometimes the new data will make you laugh out loud. Sometimes the new data will shock you. Sometimes the new data will deeply disturb you. But, always, this new data will make you think.--From OCLC record.

人人都在说谎

release date: Nov 28, 2018
人人都在说谎
本书以一个引人入胜,充满启迪和智慧的视角,巧妙洞察我们现在可获得的大量信息,为我们提供了实用的数据分析方法,同时也揭示了深深埋藏在数据背后世界本来的样貌.

Everybody Lies: Big Data Dan Apa Yang Diungkapkan Internet Tentang Siapa Kita Sesungguhnya

release date: Oct 21, 2018
Everybody Lies: Big Data Dan Apa Yang Diungkapkan Internet Tentang Siapa Kita Sesungguhnya
Sinopsis "Eksplorasi yang sangat cerdas tentang apa yang diungkap oleh big data tentang kehidupan sehari-hari kita.” —Steven Levitt, rekan penulis FREAKONOMICS Dalam karya terobosan ini, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, ekonom lulusan Harvard, berargumen bahwa banyak hal yang kita pikirkan tentang orang lain sebenarnya sangatlah keliru. Kenapa begitu? Orang berbohong, kepada teman, pasangan, dokter, survei—dan diri mereka sendiri. Namun, kita tak lagi perlu mengandalkan apa yang orang katakan kepada kita. Data baru dari internet—jejak informasi yang ditinggalkan oleh miliaran orang di Google, media sosial, biro jodoh daring, bahkan situs porno—akhirnya mengungkapkan kebenaran untuk pertanyaan-pertanyaan seperti: • Apakah iklan efektif? • Pentingkah dimana kita kuliah? • Di mana tempat terbaik untuk membesarkan anak? • Apa yang harus diobrolkan pada kencan pertama jika ingin memastikan akan ada kencan kedua? Everybody Lies memadukan analisis penuh informasi ala The Signal and the Noise karya Nate Silver, gaya bercerita ala Outliers karya Malcolm Gladwell, serta kejenakaan ala Freakonomics karya Stephen Dubner dan Steven Levitt ke dalam buku yang akan mengubah cara Anda melihat dunia. Hampir tidak ada batasan untuk apa yang bisa dipelajari tentang manusia dari big data—yang tersedia jika Anda mengajukan pertanyaan yang tepat. “Cara yang benar-benar baru dan belum pernah dilakukan untuk mempelajari pikiran (dan) mengintip jiwa manusia…. Menarik sampai akhir.” —Steven Pinker, penulis THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE “Freakonomics dengan semangat baru.” —Raj Chetty, guru besar ekonomi Stanford University “Saya terpana.” —BUSINESS INSIDER “Tur yang mengguncang ke dalam jiwa manusia.” —THE ECONOMIST Detail Format : Soft cover Jumlah halaman : 336 halaman Tanggal terbit : 22 Oktober 2018 Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama Penulis : Seth Stephens dan Davidowitz Panjang : 23 cm Lebar : 15 cm Berat : 0.6 kg ISBN : 9786020612096 Bahasa : Indonesia

Tout le monde ment... (et vous aussi !)

release date: May 29, 2018
Tout le monde ment... (et vous aussi !)
Internet et le Big Data : ce que nos recherches Google disent vraiment de nous ! Les parents favorisent-ils les garçons plutôt que les filles ? L''école que l''on fréquente influence-t-elle réellement notre réussite ? Mentons-nous souvent sur notre sexualité ? En ce début de XXIe siècle, nos navigations Internet génèrent 8 millions de giga-octets de données chaque jour. Une quantité stupéfiante d''informations qui en disent long sur chacun d''entre nous, car c''est à notre moteur de recherche que nous confions nos questions et nos pensées les plus intimes. S''appuyant sur les recherches Google de millions d''Américains, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz nous livre des révélations fascinantes sur des sujets aussi divers que la politique, le racisme, la violence, notre sexualité, nos relations familiales, le sport... À la lumière de ce « sérum de vérité numérique » qu''est le Big Data, il nous invite à lever le voile sur nous-mêmes et à prendre conscience de nos préjugés... pour mieux changer. « Une plongée inédite dans la psyché humaine [...]. Infiniment fascinant. » - Steven Pinker, auteur du best-seller La Part d''ange en nous « Une exploration incroyablement intelligente et malicieuse de ce que le Big Data nous révèle de notre quotidien. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz est le meilleur conteur de données que j''aie jamais rencontré. » - Steven Levitt, co-auteur du best-seller Freakonomics « Les conclusions empiriques présentées dans Tout le monde ment sont si intrigantes que ce livre serait passionnant même s''il était structuré comme une longue liste. » - The Economist

La macchina della verità. Come Google e i Big Data ci mostrano chi siamo veramente

release date: Jan 01, 2018

數據、謊言與真相:Google資料分析師用大數據揭露人們的真面目

數據、謊言與真相:Google資料分析師用大數據揭露人們的真面目
▍誠品書店當月選書 ▍亞馬遜非文學類當月選書 ▍亞馬遜 2017 年年度最佳商管書 ▍《財星》雜誌當月最佳商業書籍 ▍《紐約時報》暢銷書 ▍《經濟學人》《紐約郵報》《圖書館期刊》等多家媒體推薦 ★大數據下的真實人性! ★結合《精準預測》的大量資訊分析、《異數》的敘事風格,以及《蘋果橘子經濟學》的機智風趣。 ★ Google 前資料分析師描寫大數據最令人信服、深具挑釁,甚至令人捧腹大笑的一本書! 人們謊報在回家途中喝了多少酒, 謊稱自己多常上健身房和新鞋子買多少錢, 就連沒看過的書也說自己有看過。 沒生病卻打電話請病假,說再聯絡卻不再聯絡。 人們說事情跟你無關,但其實就跟你有關。 明明不愛你,卻騙你說愛你。 心情不好時卻說自己很開心, 明明喜歡男人,卻說自己喜歡女人。 人們對朋友說謊、對老闆說謊、對子女說謊、對父母說謊、 對醫生說謊、對老公說謊、對老婆說謊,也對自己說謊。 作者證明大數據提供一種前所未有的方式, 讓我們窺探人們的內心世界, 因為人們透過鍵盤才會在無意中私密地坦承千奇百怪的事情。 歐巴馬當選表示美國的種族歧視緩解了?錯! 黑人球員進入職業運動殿堂是貧困孩子奮發向上的勵志故事?大部分不是! 挑選賽馬最重要的參考依據是血統?不! 父母對待兒子和女兒的態度不一樣嗎?不一樣! 佛洛伊德說夢境中的事物都有性意涵,這是對的嗎?很可能不對! 回答問卷、民意調查、接受採訪、臉書貼文 ——我們都有可能說謊; 但是你的搜尋行為可不會說謊! 大數據,呈現我們每個人、每秒鐘無意識的反射! 無論是嚴肅或日常的議題,如今我們已有途徑能解答不久之前因種種原因(例如缺乏數據,或單純不敢提問)還未能解答的問題。 四年前,作者還是哈佛經濟系博士班學生,正努力找尋論文題目。有天早上,他發現 Google 基本上已為所有研究者備好所需的資料,也就是說,Google 是全球人類興趣資料庫的集中地,這些資料簡直就是任何對人類行為感興趣的人夢寐以求的:從我們每個人每天的網路搜尋中找到行為模式。然而,這些資料早已存在好些時日,卻從未有任何報章雜誌對其有過深刻的報導與研究。 作者深入研究 Google、推特(Twitter)、臉書(Facebook)、警察局紀錄、電影票收據、維基百科、色情網站、棒球球員個人成績表,和你想像不到的數位與傳統資料來源之後,發現這些資料來源有個共通的特點:他們提供的是大數據,亦即我們每個人每秒鐘無意識的反射,而非根據民意調查而來的一小部分民眾的意見樣本。 網路上的新數據,也就是數十億人在 Google、社群媒體、約會網站,甚至色情網站留下的數位足跡,最後會揭穿事實真相。這些不僅是新類型的數據,更有些是「誠實」的數據,在匿名機制下,彷彿四下無人時,人們才會吐露自己最真實的想法,以及真正想問的尷尬問題。這類數據就像數位版的「誠實豆沙包」,讓人們表達出自己的無性婚姻、個人精神健康問題、不安全感、受虐,以及對黑人或穆斯林的憎惡。透過分析這座數字金礦,我們現在可以了解人們真正在想什麼,真正想要什麼,以及真正做了什麼。 作者在本書中展示,要從數據中獲得寶貴資訊,最關鍵的一點是:你必須問對問題。而大數據有四大關鍵力量可以協助: ?大數據能讓你將數據切割分解,讓你見微知著及獲得具體的見解。 ?新的資料來源通常包括新類型的變數,比現存變數更能幫助我們了解複雜關係,並充分利用。 ?新的數位資訊能提供我們生活的真實樣貌,而非我們希望自己呈現給外人的形象。 ?大數據易於與實驗結合,使我們能測試因果關係,而非僅是相關性。 進入網路新時代的這幾十年以來,我們在健康、道德、勞動市場、商業、恐怖主義、性別,以及種族等議題上有長足的認識。我們的數位足跡已把整個世界變成一個實驗室,本書將呈現出這場數位革命如何為我們每個人打開找尋隱藏真理的大門,一窺人們的內心世界,提出大數據時代真正的洞見。 本書以極具啟發性的觀點解讀大數據,並以各式各樣有趣的案例忠實呈現網路世界與當代社會的現況,讓我們得以重新認識自己與這個世界。 【專業人士推薦】 ▍《阿苗帶風向》主持人苗博雅: 「透過作者風趣的文筆,我們知道大數據搭配電腦運算,有嶄新的力量……作者雖然醉心於以新穎方式分析海量數據,但他仍然在書中誠實地提醒讀者大數據的各種『能與不能』……本書的優點:簡明、幽默、易懂。只要讀者能夠看到最後一頁,勢必有所收穫。」 ▍哈佛大學榮譽退休校長暨諾頓講座教授勞倫斯.桑默斯(Lawrence Summers): 「《蘋果橘子經濟學》(Freakonomics)和《魔球》(Moneyball)都要靠邊站了。這本精彩傑作是說明大數據結合聰明才智如何撼動世界的最佳示範。閱讀這本好書,會讓你以嶄新的方式看待生活。」 ▍《人性中的良善天使》作者史蒂芬.平克(Steven Pinker): 「研究思維的一種嶄新方式,史蒂芬斯—大衛德維茲的發現一次又一次地顛覆我對自己國家和同胞先入為主的看法……這本書真是太令人著迷了。」 ▍《蘋果橘子經濟學》合著者史蒂芬.李維特(Steven Levitt): 「針對大數據揭露人們日常生活真相做出絕頂聰明又機鋒處處的探索。史蒂芬斯—大衛德維茲是我見過最會善用數據說故事的高手。」 ▍《我們是誰?大數據下的人類行為觀察》作者克里斯汀.魯德(Christian Rudder): 「對於我們生活的數據進行振奮人心又引人入勝的審視……大數據會徹底推翻你對人們的既定印象,真相會讓你畏縮、暗自竊笑並搖頭嘆息。」 ▍《注意力商人》(The Attention Merchants)作者吳修銘(Tim Wu): 「《數據、謊言與真相》仰賴大數據迅速拆穿我們自以為文明的假象。一本讓人既著迷又震驚,時而駭人聽聞的傑作。最棒的是,讓真相一覽無遺。」 ▍史丹佛大學經濟學教授拉吉.切提(Raj Chetty): 「《蘋果橘子經濟學》的增強版,這本書顯示大數據如何能針對重要有趣的問題,提供我們驚人的新答案。史蒂芬斯—大衛德維茲以機智俐落的方式提供數據分析,為構成社會科學的大數據提供精闢出色的介紹。 」 ▍拉扎德投資銀行(Lazard)董事總經理暨前國會預算辦公室主任彼得.奧薩格(Peter Orszag): 「傑作!!!作者妙筆生花敘述透過大數據進行的一場寓教於樂之旅。這場旅程剛好為人類行為本身提出一個重要的新觀點。如果你想了解我們居住的世界正在發生什麼事,甚至是了解你的友人究竟怎麼回事,你就該從頭到尾看完這本書。」? 出版社 商周出版 (城邦)

Everybody Lies

release date: May 09, 2017
Everybody Lies
Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable. Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women? Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.

Essays Using Google Data

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Essays Using Google Data
I show three new ways to use Google search query data. First, I use Google search data to measure racism in the United States and its effect on Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Second, I use Google search data to predict turnout in different parts of the United States prior to an election. Third, I use Google search data to measure child maltreatment and how maltreatment is affected by economic downturns.
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