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Everybody lies [large print] : big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are / Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062497499
ISBN: 0062497499
Physical Description: 413 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: New York : HarperLUXE. 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Foreword written by Steven Pinker.
Formatted Contents Note:	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?