Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
The Geeks, or computer science experts, have developed the tools to analyze ever larger sets of data in ever more illuminating ways. The Wonks, on the policy side, have come up with creative ways to use this computing power for better government, smarter business policy, and faster innovation.
Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
I think it’s dangerous to take an excessively U.S.-centric perspective here. If you interact with or look at survey data, or otherwise try to assess what’s the sentiment of people in Poland, what’s the sentiment of people in India, or what’s the sentiment of people in Indonesia, they view the internet extremely positively. And I think correctly so,... See more
Ezra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
“Google was invented so that people could learn about the world, not so researchers could learn about people,” wrote the data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “but it turns out the trails we leave as we seek knowledge on the internet are tremendously revealing.”
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
Knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, can make a complicated world less so. There is nothing like the