Everybody Lies
I really enjoyed reading this book, which as breezy and surprisingly funny. But now that I've finished with it, I can almost feel it fading from my memory. There are a few keys points and interesting factoids that will no doubt stick with me. But overall, this book was pretty superficial in it's survey of the state of Big Data Analysis and where it's going in the future. I guess my issue is that this book didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know or suspect. Access to massive data sets is giving us unparalleled insights into human behavior. But we're still learning how to wrangle those data sets. Some insights confirm our long-held suspicions. Others run counter to our intuitions. And while there are hypotheses to explain those results, they have yet to be thoroughly tested. Still more insights will surely be overturned soon, as we become better at understanding what all this data is telling us. In his conclusion, Stephens-Davidowitz points out th...