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‘The best book that I've read on data in years, perhaps ever. If you want to understand how data is affecting the present and what it portends for the future, buy it now’ Huffington Post
‘A fun, visual book – and a necessary one at that’ Max Wallis, Independent, Books of the Year
‘Fascinating, funny, and occasionally howl-inducing ... [Rudder] is a quant with soul, and we’re lucky to have him’ Elle
‘Most data-hyping books are vapour and slogans. This one has the real stuff: actual data and actual analysis taking place on the page. That’s something to be praised, loudly and at length. Praiseworthy, too, is Rudder’s writing, which is consistently zingy and mercifully free of Silicon Valley business gabble’ Washington Post
‘Dataclysm is a well-written and funny look at what the numbers reveal about human behavior in the age of social media. It’s both profound and a bit disturbing, because, sad to say, we’re generally not the kind of people we like to think ― or say ― we are’ Salon
‘There's another side of Big Data you haven't seen ... It's the big data that rears its ugly head and tells us what we don't want to know. And that, as Christian Rudder demonstrates in his new book, Dataclysm, is perhaps an equally worthwhile pursuit. Before we heighten the human experience, we should understand it first’ TIME
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are – and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behaviour.
Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In ‘Dataclysm’, Christian Rudder, founder of one of the world’s biggest dating websites OkCupid, puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature.
Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, OkCupid, and many other sites, Rudder examines the terrain of human experience to answer a range of questions: Does it matter where you went to school? How racist are we? How do political views alter relationships? Philosophers, psychologists, gene hunters and neuroscientists have tried to explain our flaws and foibles. Rudder shows that in today's era of social media, a powerful new approach is possible, one that reveals how we actually behave when we think no one's looking.
Outrageous and illuminating, ‘Dataclysm’, is a portrait of our essential selves – dark, absurd, occasionally noble – and a first look at a revolution in the making.
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Founder of OK Cupid, Christian Rudder, reveals the myriad and mind-blowing possibilities of harnessing big data, and explores what our digital footprints can tell us about human relationships. In an hour, ten million pictures go up on Facebook. Each day, more people flirt on OkCupid than live in Chicago. We've all heard these types of numbers before; but in Datacysm, for the first time, we can actually feel their impact. We can see the actual information being created and what we can learn from it.Christian Rudder is one of the founders of OK Cupid, Americas biggest dating site, and so is in possession of one of the richest interpersonal datasets in the world. In this book, he takes data from OK Cupid, and also from other sites Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, last.fm, LinkedIn, Uber, Reddit, and so on all the messaging, the flirting, the posting, the trolling, the liking, the hating, and makes something wonderful.While most popular nonfiction takes something small and uses it as a lens for big events, Dataclysm does the opposite. It takes something big the enormous dataset of everything that we're doing and saying and thinking and teases from it many small things: how a joke changes in the telling, whether it really matters where you went to college, how people decide whos beautiful and who isnt. This book is a series of statistical vignettes, tiny windows, looking in on slices of life.One day soon there will be many people whose entire lives have been mediated through their digital devices. Then well really be able to see whats what. In the meantime, with the data he has collected, Christian Rudder has forged a new genre of statistical writing, where numbers become narrative. An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behaviour. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780007494439
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