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Author Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth, author.

Title Everybody lies : big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are / Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]
©2017

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  302.23 STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  302.23 STE    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  302.231 STEPHENS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  302.231 STEPHENS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  302.231 STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  302.23 STE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  302.231 STE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  302.231 STE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  302.231 STE    Lost and Paid
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  303.483 STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xi, 338 pages, [1] unnumbered plate : charts, illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-318) and index.
Contents Part I: Data, big and small. Your faulty gut -- Part II: The powers of big data. Was Freud right? -- Data reimagined -- Digital truth serum -- Zooming in -- All the world's a lab -- Part III: Big data: handle with care. Big data, big schmata? What it cannot do -- Mo data, mo problems? What we shouldn't do -- Conclusion: how many people finish books?
Credits Foreword written by Steven Pinker.
Summary 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.
Subject Data mining -- Social aspects.
Big data -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Information Management.
COMPUTERS -- Databases -- Data Mining.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Added Author Pinker, Steven, 1954- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780062390851 (hardcover)
0062390856 (hardcover)
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