Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us - About Who We Really Are

On an average day, humans will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data searching the internet. Seth Stephen-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, shows your students how that data can be mined for valuable insight, from the hilarious to the horrifying. In the spirit of Freakonomics , Everybody Lies challenges our preconceived notions on how people think and explores how big data can be used in new and innovative ways. Freshman Common Read: Hamline University

Product details

• Authors: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2017
• EAN: 9780062390851
• ISBN: 978-0-06-239085-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Popular Culture, Social, group or collective psychology, Econometrics and economic statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: BIG IDEAS, MARKETING: CONSUMER TRENDS & BEHAVIOR, MATH: GENERAL, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Information Management, COMPUTERS: Data Science / Data Analytics, SOCIOLOGY: COMPUTERS & SOCIETY, MARKETING: MARKETING RESEARCH, COMPUTER SCIENCE: GENERAL, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Statistics, Marketing / Marketing Research, First Year Experience / Big Ideas, Math / General, Computer Science / General, Sociology / Computers & Sociology, Marketing / Consumer Trends & Behavior