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Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are: Bestsellers cărți Popularizarea științei

Autor Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2018

În contextul programelor de studiu axate pe analiza datelor și sociologie computațională, Everybody Lies reprezintă un punct de cotitură în înțelegerea modului în care amprenta noastră digitală reflectă realitatea psihologică. Notăm cu interes cum Seth Stephens-Davidowitz transformă motorul de căutare Google într-un „ser al adevărului” digital, argumentând că oamenii tind să fie mult mai sinceri în fața unei bare de căutare decât în cadrul sondajelor tradiționale. Reținem premisa centrală a lucrării: în timp ce datele colectate prin metode clasice sunt adesea viciate de dorința de acceptare socială, cele opt trilioane de gigabytes generate zilnic oferă o perspectivă nefiltrată asupra fricilor, dorințelor și prejudecăților noastre.

Merită menționat că autorul, fost expert la Google, utilizează rigurozitatea statistică pentru a demonta mituri despre rasism, succes economic și comportament sexual. Comparabil cu Dataclysm de Christian Rudder în ceea ce privește utilizarea datelor din platforme online pentru a studia comportamentul uman, Everybody Lies se distinge prin profunzimea analizei economice și prin capacitatea de a extrage concluzii relevante pentru politici publice. De asemenea, lucrarea poate fi pusă în oglindă cu Big Data de Viktor Mayer-Schonberger; în timp ce acesta din urmă se concentrează pe transformarea tehnologică și industrială, Stephens-Davidowitz prioritizează dimensiunea psihologică și etică a informației.

Experiența de lectură este marcată de un ton spiritual și adesea surprinzător, reușind să facă accesibile concepte complexe din econometrie fără a sacrifica precizia academică. Față de lucrarea sa ulterioară, Don't Trust Your Gut, care se orientează spre deciziile personale bazate pe date, acest titlu rămâne pilonul teoretic fundamental care explică de ce datele masive sunt esențiale pentru științele sociale moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408894736
ISBN-10: 1408894734
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 132 x 200 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Seriile Bestsellers cărți Popularizarea științei, Bestsellers cărți vânzări engleză

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de modul în care tehnologia ne dezvăluie natura umană. Veți câștiga o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care sunt colectate și interpretate datele masive, învățând să priviți dincolo de aparențele sondajelor de opinie. Este o lectură esențială pentru profesioniștii din marketing, sociologi sau economiști care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele ascunse ale comportamentului colectiv într-o eră digitală.


Despre autor

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz este un cercetător proeminent, doctor în economie al Universității Harvard și licențiat în filosofie la Stanford. Experiența sa profesională include un rol strategic ca cercetător de date la Google și activitate didactică la The Wharton School. Contribuțiile sale editoriale pentru New York Times și cercetările publicate în Journal of Public Economics l-au consacrat ca un expert în utilizarea instrumentelor de tip big data pentru a identifica atitudini sociale invizibile prin metodele clasice de cercetare.


Descriere

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' EconomistEverybody 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.


Recenzii

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
Absorbing and impassioned ... as an introduction to our fascinating new universe of data, Everybody Lies is hard to beat
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
Move over Freakonomics. Move over Moneyball. This brilliant book is the best demonstration yet of how big data plus cleverness can illuminate and then move the world. Read it and you'll see life in a new way
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
Everybody Lies relies on big data to rip the veneer of what we like to think of as our civilized selves. A book that is fascinating, shocking, sometimes horrifying, but above all, revealing
Freakonomics on steroids - this book shows how big data can give us surprising new answers to important and interesting questions. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz brings data analysis alive in a crisp, witty manner, providing a terrific introduction to how big data is shaping social science
A sobering guide to how much of ourselves we're putting online and what private companies might do with that information
Everybody Lies is a spirited and enthralling examination of the data of our lives. Drawing on a wide variety of revelatory sources, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz will make you cringe, chuckle, and wince at the people you thought we were
A tour de force - a well-written and entertaining journey through big data that, along the way, happens to put forward an important new perspective on human behaviour itself
Brimming with intriguing anecdotes and counterintuitive facts, Stephens-Davidowitz does his level best to help usher in a new age of human understanding, one digital data point at a time
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
It's a wonderful book, but I would say that, wouldn't I?
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'
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
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'

Caracteristici

Features a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker (nearly 200,000 TCM combined sales)

Notă biografică

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research - which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes - has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.sethsd.com / @SethS_D


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How much sex are people really having? 
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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 groundbreaking 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.
Everybody Lies combines the informed analysis of Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, the storytelling of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, and the wit and fun of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics in a book that will change the way you view the world. There is almost no limit to what can be learned about human nature from Big Data—provided, that is, you ask the right questions.