Episode 123 - Everybody Lies with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Today’s episode features Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of the book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who we Really Are. Discussion topics include research on NBA demographics, horse racing, Google search data and Coronavirus, and validating Google analytics.
About Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an author, data scientist, and speaker who studies what we can learn about people from new, internet data sources. His 2017 book Everybody Lies was a New York Times bestseller and an Economist Book of the Year. Seth is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times and has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School and a data scientist at Google. He received his BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and his PhD in economics from Harvard in 2013. He is a passionate fan of the Knicks, Mets, Jets, and Leonard Cohen.
Website: SethSD.com
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