Everybody lies
Subtitle: big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz ; forward by Steven Pinker
Contributors: Pinker, Steven, 1954- writer of foreword
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780062497499
Subjects: Social aspects; Data mining; Big data; Internet
Description: 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.
Notes: "Larger print"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The outlines of a revolution; title: Part I, Data, big and small. Your faulty gut; title: Part II, The powers of big data. Was Freud right?.  Data reimagined. Digital truth serum. Zooming in. All the world's a lab; title: Part III, Big data : handle with care. Big data, big schmata? : what it cannot do; title: Mo data, mo problems? : what we shouldn't do. Conclusion: how many people finish books?.