'A sobering guide to how much of ourselves we're putting online and what private companies might do with that information'- New Statesman
Everybody lies,to friends,lovers,doctors,pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches,however,people confess the truth.
Insightful,funny and always surprising,Everybody Lies explores how this huge collection of data,unprecedented in human history,could just be the most important ever collected.
It offers astonishing insights into the human psyche,revealing the biases deeply embedded within us,the questions we're afraid to ask that might be essential to our well-being,and the information we can use to change our culture for the better.
'Stephens-Davidowitz,a former data scientist at Google,has spent the last four years poring over Internet search data...What he found is that Internet search data might be the Holy Grail when it comes to understanding the true nature of humanity'- New York Post
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408894736Number of pages: 352Weight: 290 gDimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Absorbing and impassioned...as an introduction to our fascinating new universe of data,Everybody Lies is hard to beat'-Financial Times
'Time and again my preconceptions about my country and my species were turned upside-down by Stephens-Davidowitz's discoveries'- Steven Pinker
'Everybody Lies is an astoundingly clever and mischievous exploration of what big data tells us about everyday life. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met'- Steven Levitt,co-author,Freakonomics
'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche...The empirical findings in Everybody Lies are so intriguing that the book would be a page-turner even if it were structured as a mere laundry list'- Economist
'A sobering guide to how much of ourselves we're putting online and what private companies might do with that information'- Helen Lewis,New Statesman
'Stephens-Davidowitz,a former data scientist at Google,has spent the last four years poring over Internet search data...What he found is that Internet search data might be the Holy Grail when it comes to understanding the true nature of humanity'- New York Post
'Stephens-Davidowitz censures academics and other researchers for ignoring the largest data set ever collected,and he is probably not overstating it when he claims that the continuing study of these searches "will radically expand our understanding of mankind". This undemanding book is a useful first step towards that knowledge'- Oliver Thring,Sunday Times
'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in his book Everybody Lies,tackles the discrepancy between the ideal version of ourselves we present to the world via social media and the confessions that we would never post there'- International New York Times
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