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Loading... Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (edition 2017)by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The author's thesis is that people tell the Google search bar truthful, shameful things that they would never reveal to another human being in a survey. He analyzes Google searches and other sources of big data to come up with interesting, often lurid insights about people's hidden nature. I found it fascinating. ( ) Сеть все знает «Могущество Google в том, что люди рассказывают гигантской поисковой системе то, что они не могли бы сказать никому другому», — замечает Стивенс-Давидовиц. Этот поисковик, утверждает автор, новый и уникальный инструмент для изучения человеческих страстей. Пока еще не все данные получается интерпретировать, но аналитики уже могут предсказать, за кого вы будете голосовать, — подоспели результаты разбора победы Трампа. Изучение Facebook-статусов приоткрыло завесу над секретами счастливых пар (большое число общих друзей является существенным показателем того, что отношения НЕ продлятся долго), а big data из других источников сообщает реальные размеры безработицы в стране: Pornhub регистрирует аномальные всплески посещаемости после сокращений. Сеть знает людей лучше их самих. In Everybody Lies, the author explores how big data (such as google searches) can tell us things about our society and culture. He uses examples, such as a comparison of the increase in racist search terms after both Obama's and Trump's elections, to demonstrate how this data can be used to give us a more accurate picture of ourselves. I think he does a very good job of demonstrating the potential of this information. Not being a data scientist, I am not sure how accurate his conclusions from the data are (there were some deductions that seemed a bit questionable to me), but I am convinced that he was successful in showing that there is a ton of information out there that can be used for good (rather than negative things I normally think of big data being used for). The author presented his information in a humorous and easy to understand way. I found it all very interesting. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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