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

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2017

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Title:	Everybody lies : big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are / Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
Author:	Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xi, 338 pages : charts, illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm illustration chart
System Availability:	3 (of 3)
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Current Holds:	0
Subjects:	Data mining -- Social aspects. Big data -- Social aspects. Internet -- Social aspects. Data mining -- Social aspects. Data mining. Big data -- Social aspects. Big data. Internet -- Social aspects. Internet.
Other Author:	Pinker, Steven, 1954- writer of foreword.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index. Foreword written by Steven Pinker.
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?
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.
ISBN:	9780062390851 0062390856 9780062390868 0062390864

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