Staff Picks: Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Adult Non Fiction)

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

There's a lot of data to be found on the internet. Perhaps you've heard the phrase "big data" or "data science" tossed around lately. But what can you do with all this data? What kinds of questions can you answer with it? A former Google data scientist, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz decided to try answering questions about human behavior using big data sources like Google search histories and Facebook likes. The answers he gets are often surprising.

Fans of Freakonomics, this is the book for you.

Nicholas Yeatman
Information Specialist