Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller

The goal of a data scientist is to understand the world.

Indeed, poor people living near rich people exercise more, smoke less, and are less likely to suffer from obesity.

Women use the word “tomorrow” far more often than men do, perhaps because men aren’t so great at thinking ahead.

On Facebook, we show our cultivated selves, not our true selves.

Numbers can be seductive. We can grow fixated with them, and in so doing we can lose sight of more important considerations.

Offering up new types of data is the first power of Big Data.

Google data also suggests a reason people may be avoiding sex so frequently: enormous anxiety, with much of it misplaced.

The days of structured, clean, simple, survey-based data are over. In this new age, the messy traces we leave as we go through life are becoming the primary source of data.

I admit sometimes the new data does just confirm the obvious.