“Big Data is not just about doing the same thing you would have done with surveys except with more data” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“The algorithms know you better than you know yourself,” says Xavier Amatriain, a former data scientist at Netflix.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process—spotting patterns and making sense of them—and injects it with steroids” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Everything is data! And with all this new data, we can finally see through people’s lies.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Allowing us to do many causal experiments is the fourth power of Big Data.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Big Data allows us to meaningfully zoom in on small segments of a dataset to gain new insights on who we are.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Big Data does not eliminate the need for all the other ways humans have developed over the millennia to understand the world.… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“Big Data allows us to finally see what people really want and really do, not what they say they want and say… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“As with Google, so with everyone else trying to use data to understand the world. The Big Data revolution is less about… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“One theory I am working on: Big Data just confirms everything the late Leonard Cohen ever said. For example, Leonard Cohen once… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“I am now convinced that Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. This” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“DIGITAL TRUTH DIGITAL LIES • Searches • Social media posts • Views • Social media likes • Clicks • Dating profiles • Swipes” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Facebook is digital brag-to-my-friends-about-how-good-my-life-is serum. In Facebook world, the average adult seems to be happily married, vacationing in the Caribbean, and perusing the Atlantic.… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Sometimes new data reveals cultural differences I had never even contemplated. One example: the very different ways that men around the world respond to… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Netflix learned a similar lesson early on in its life cycle: don’t trust what people tell you; trust what they do.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs only once,… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“... I was shock aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“And it is certainly possible that lying played a role in the failure of the polls to predict Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Polls, on… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“... I was shocked aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Newspaper readership, on average, tilts a bit left. (They have data on that.) And newspapers, on average, tilt a bit left to give their… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Why is the presence of rich people such a powerful predictor of poor people’s life expectancy? One” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well be a… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Clark Benson is the CEO of ranker.com, a news and entertainment site that relies heavily on A/B testing to choose headlines and site design.… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
“Do you think the United States is currently a united or a divided country? If you are like most people, you would say the… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share
