Everybody lies : what the internet can tell us about who we really are /

Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth.

Everybody lies : what the internet can tell us about who we really are / Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. - London : Bloomsbury, 2018. - xi, 338 p. : ill.

Reprint. Originally published: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index.

Introduction: The outlines of a revolution -- Your faulty gut -- Was Freud right? -- Data reimagined -- Digital truth serum -- Zooming in -- All the world's a lab -- Big data, big schmata? What it cannot do -- Mo data, mo problems? What we shouldn't do -- Conclusion: How many people finish books?

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.

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Data mining--Social aspects.
Big data--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.

QA76.9.D343 / S747 2018