Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“I am now convinced that Google searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. This”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“DIGITAL TRUTH DIGITAL LIES • Searches • Social media posts • Views • Social media likes • Clicks • Dating profiles • Swipes”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Allowing us to zoom in on small subsets of people is the third power of Big Data.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“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…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Sometimes new data reveals cultural differences I had never even contemplated. One example: the very different ways that men around the world…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“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

“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“... I was shock aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“And it is certainly possible that lying played a role in the failure of the polls to predict Donald Trump’s 2016 victory.…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“... I was shocked aplenty by what the internet reveals about human sexuality...”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Newspaper readership, on average, tilts a bit left. (They have data on that.) And newspapers, on average, tilt a bit left to…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Why is the presence of rich people such a powerful predictor of poor people’s life expectancy? One”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Clark Benson is the CEO of ranker.com, a news and entertainment site that relies heavily on A/B testing to choose headlines and…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Do you think the United States is currently a united or a divided country? If you are like most people, you would…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The world, quite simply, is too complex and too rich for little data.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The impact has been so profound that when Amazon engineer Greg Linden originally introduced doppelganger searches to predict readers’ book preferences, the…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Between the key ages of fourteen and twenty-four, numerous Americans will form their views based on the popularity of the current president.…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“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

“So is America a “land of opportunity”? The answer is neither yes nor no. The answer is: some parts are, and some…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“The first three—religion, environment, and health insurance—do not correlate with longer life spans for the poor. The variable that does matter, according”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Big Data is not just about doing the same thing you would have done with surveys except with more data”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“I sometimes suspect that inside every data scientist is a kid trying to figure out why his childhood dreams didn't come true.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz