Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

An Economist Best Book of the Year A PBS NewsHour Book of the Year An Entrepeneur Top Business Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and Leadership New York Times Bestseller Foreword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. 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. Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women? Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.

Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Everybody Lies

You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we face - and how these answers can radically improve our lives. Print run 100,000.

Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

Don't Trust Your Gut

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"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force—an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity.” — Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing “expert” advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes self-improvement—such as who we marry, how to date, where to live, what makes us happy—based solely on what our gut instinct tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased, unpredictable, and misinformed, our gut, it turns out, is not all that reliable. And data can prove this. In Don’t Trust Your Gut, economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own lives. In the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life’s biggest self-help puzzles. Data from hundreds of thousands of dating profiles have revealed surprising successful strategies to get a date; data from hundreds of millions of tax records have uncovered the best places to raise children; data from millions of career trajectories have found previously unknown reasons why some rise to the top. Telling fascinating, unexpected stories with these numbers and the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz exposes that, while we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers disagree. Hard facts and figures consistently contradict our instincts and demonstrate self-help that actually works—whether it involves the best time in life to start a business or how happy it actually makes us to skip a friend’s birthday party for a night of Netflix on the couch. From the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to the old-school, data-backed relationship advice so well-worn it’s become a literal joke, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Lively, engrossing, and provocative, the end result opens up a new world of self-improvement made possible with massive troves of data. Packed with fresh, entertaining insights, Don’t Trust Your Gut redefines how to tackle our most consequential choices, one that hacks the market inefficiencies of life and leads us to make smarter decisions about how to improve our lives. Because in the end, the numbers don’t lie.

Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe

Steven Pinker

How much sex are people really having? How many Americans are actually racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market? Does violent entertainment increase the rate of violent crime? Do parents treat sons differently from daughters? How many people actually read the books they buy? In this work, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a Harvard-trained economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times writer, argues that much of what we thought about people has been dead wrong. The reason? People lie, to friends, lovers, doctors, surveys -- and themselves. However, we no longer need to rely on what people tell us. New data from the internet -- the traces of information that billions of people leave on Google, social media, dating, and even pornography sites -- finally reveals the truth. By analyzing this digital goldmine, we can now learn what people really think, what they really want, and what they really do. Sometimes the new data will make you laugh out loud. Sometimes the new data will shock you. Sometimes the new data will deeply disturb you. But, always, this new data will make you think.--From OCLC record.

big data, nowe dane i wszystko, co Internet może nam powiedzieć o tym, kim naprawdę jesteśmy

Wszyscy kłamią

Nesta obra ousada, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, economista formado por Harvard, defende que muito do que pensávamos sobre as pessoas estava completamente errado. O motivo? Todo mundo mente, para amigos, parceiros, médicos, pesquisas — e para si mesmo. Entretanto, não precisamos mais confiar no que as pessoas nos dizem. Novos dados da internet finalmente revelam a verdade. Ao analisar essa mina de ouro digital, podemos agora descobrir o que as pessoas realmente pensam, querem e fazem. Todo Mundo Mente combina a análise informada de O Sinal e o Ruído, de Nate Silver, o storytelling de Fora de Série — Outliers, de Malcolm Gladwell, e a sagacidade e diversão de Freakonomics, de Steven Levitt e Stephen Dubner, em um livro que mudará sua forma de encarar o mundo. A capacidade de aprendizado sobre a natureza humana a partir de Big Data é praticamente ilimitada — basta fazer as perguntas certas.

O que a internet e os dados dizem sobre quem realmente somos

Todo Mundo Mente

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THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYBODY LIES 'Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force - an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity' DANIEL H. PINK 'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this engaging book is full of surprising, useful insights for using the information at your fingertips to make better decisions' ADAM GRANT Big decisions are hard. We might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance, but in the end we usually just do what feels right. But what if our gut is wrong? As economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues, our gut is actually not that reliable – and data can prove this. In Don't Trust Your Gut, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Over the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life's biggest self-help puzzles, from the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to old-school, data-backed relationship advice. While we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers, it turns out, disagree. Telling fascinating stories through the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our lives, and offers a new way of tackling our most consequential choices.

Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices

Každý klame ponúka fascinujúce, prekvapujúce a niekedy aj smiešne nahliadnutia do všetkého, od ekonómie po etiku, šport, od rasy po pohlavie a ďalšie, všetky čerpané zo sveta Big data. Aké percento bielych voličov nehlasovalo za Baracka Obamu, pretože je čierny? Ovplyvňuje to, kam chodíte do školy, akí ste v živote úspešní? Uprednostňujú rodičia tajne synov pred dcérami? Ovplyvňujú násilné filmy mieru kriminality? Dokážete poraziť akciový trh? Ako pravidelne klameme o našom sexuálnom živote a kto si menej verí, keď ide o sex, muži alebo ženy? Seth Stephens-Davidowitz skúma tieto otázky a ponúka odhalenia, ktoré nám môžu pomôcť lepšie porozumieť sebe a nášmu životu. Odhaľuje predpojatosti hlboko zabudované v nás, informácie, ktoré môžeme použiť na zmenu našej kultúry, a otázky, ktoré sa bojíme opýtať a ktoré by mohli mať zásadný význam pre naše zdravie – psychické aj fyzické. Každý z nás je obklopený Veľkými dátami a ich vplyv sa znásobuje. Každý klame nás vyzýva, aby sme premýšľali inak o tom, ako vidíme svet. „Stephens-Davidowitz, bývalý dátový analytik v spoločnosti Google, strávil posledné štyri roky skúmaním údajov o internetovom vyhľadávaní... Zistil, že údaje o internetovom vyhľadávaní môžu byť svätým grálom, pokiaľ ide o pochopenie skutočnej povahy ľudstva.“ (New York Post) „Empirické zistenia v knihe Každý klame sú také zaujímavé, že kniha by bola pútavá, aj keby bola štruktúrovaná ako obyčajný zoznam bielizne.“ (The Economist)

Každý klame

"En un día común del siglo XXI, los humanos generamos 8 billones de gigabytes de datos. Y en ellos hay pistas muy reveladoras sobre nuestros miedos, deseos y conductas. Si bien es cierto que Google no se inventó para que los investigadores pudieran averiguar cosas sobre la gente, sino para que nosotros pudiéramos averiguar cosas sobre el mundo, las huellas que dejamos al buscar conocimientos en internet resultan realmente valiosas para quien quiera acercarse al conocimiento de las personas. La gente no solo le pide datos a Google, sino que también le hace confesiones. En la privacidad de su hogar hace indagaciones incómodas, y a veces escandalosas; indagaciones que nadie admitiría delante de otros. Y si como hizo Stephens-Davidowitz, uno se zambulle con las preguntas correctas en lo más profundo del Big Data, podrá encontrarse con una visión hasta hace poco inaccesible de la psique humana."--Back cover.

lo que internet y el bigdata pueden decir de nosotros

Todo el mundo miente

Internet et le Big Data : ce que nos recherches Google disent vraiment de nous ! Les parents favorisent-ils les garçons plutôt que les filles ? L'école que l'on fréquente influence-t-elle réellement notre réussite ? Mentons-nous souvent sur notre sexualité ? En ce début de XXIe siècle, nos navigations Internet génèrent 8 millions de giga-octets de données chaque jour. Une quantité stupéfiante d'informations qui en disent long sur chacun d'entre nous, car c'est à notre moteur de recherche que nous confions nos questions et nos pensées les plus intimes. S'appuyant sur les recherches Google de millions d'Américains, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz nous livre des révélations fascinantes sur des sujets aussi divers que la politique, le racisme, la violence, notre sexualité, nos relations familiales, le sport... À la lumière de ce « sérum de vérité numérique » qu'est le Big Data, il nous invite à lever le voile sur nous-mêmes et à prendre conscience de nos préjugés... pour mieux changer. « Une plongée inédite dans la psyché humaine [...]. Infiniment fascinant. » - Steven Pinker, auteur du best-seller La Part d'ange en nous « Une exploration incroyablement intelligente et malicieuse de ce que le Big Data nous révèle de notre quotidien. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz est le meilleur conteur de données que j'aie jamais rencontré. » - Steven Levitt, co-auteur du best-seller Freakonomics « Les conclusions empiriques présentées dans Tout le monde ment sont si intrigantes que ce livre serait passionnant même s'il était structuré comme une longue liste. » - The Economist

Tout le monde ment... (et vous aussi !)

Internet et le Big Data : ce que nos recherchent Google disent vraiment de nous

THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYBODY LIES'Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force -- an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity'DANIEL H. PINK'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this engaging book is full of surprising, useful insights for using the information at your fingertips to make better decisions'ADAM GRANTBig decisions are hard. We might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance, but in the end we usually just do what feels right. But what if our gut is wrong?As economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues, our gut is actually not that reliable - and data can prove this. In Don't Trust Your Gut, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Over the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life's biggest self-help puzzles, from the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to old-school, data-backed relationship advice. While we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers, it turns out, disagree.Telling fascinating stories through the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our lives, and offers a new way of tackling our most consequential choices.

Using Data to Get what You Really Want in Life

En un día promedio de principios del siglo xxi, los seres humanos que buscan en Internet acumulan ocho billones de gigabytes de datos. Esta asombrosa cantidad de información puede decirnos mucho sobre quiénes somos, los miedos, deseos y comportamientos que nos impulsan y las decisiones conscientes e inconscientes que tomamos. De lo profundo a lo mundano, podemos obtener un asombroso conocimiento sobre la psique humana que hace menos de veinte años parecía insondable. Stephens-Davidowitz nos ofrece información fascinante, sorprendente y a menudo graciosa, sobre temas que van desde la economía hasta la ética, los deportes, el sexo, etc. Todo ello extraído del mundo del big data. A partir de estudios y experimentos sobre cómo vivimos y pensamos realmente, el autor demuestra en qué medida todo el mundo es un laboratorio. Con conclusiones que van desde lo extraño pero cierto hasta lo provocador y lo perturbador, explora el poder de este suero de la verdad digital y su potencial más profundo, revelando sesgos profundamente arraigados en nosotros; una información que sin duda podemos utilizar para cambiar nuestra cultura. La influencia del big data se está multiplicando exponencialmente, y Stephens-Davidowitz nos desafía a pensar de una manera diferente sobre el mundo y la forma en que lo vemos.

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