Dataclysm : Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

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As one of the creators of the dating site OkCupid, author Christian Rudder has a fascinating dataset to play with. In combination with data acquired from other data-collecting websites (Facebook, Google, etc), he's able to ask and answer some very interesting questions. For instance, who do peopl...

from DoingDewey

As one of the creators of the dating site OkCupid, author Christian Rudder has a fascinating dataset to play with. In combination with data acquired from other data-collecting websites (Facebook, Google, etc), he's able to ask and answer some very interesting questions. For instance, who do peopl...

from Juva

Written by one of the founders of a popular dating website, this book examines what data mining can tell us about ourselves. Vast majority of people surveyed said they would refuse to date someone who ever expressed a racist opinion, yet most online daters do that very thing. Looking at google se...

from firewontquell

Great book with interesting anecdotes. The writing style is easy to read and understand. Those with even the most rudimentary understanding of statistics will be able to understand the points being made-- I even found it necessary to skip over some parts with the more simplistic explanations. I l...

from Keith.G.Richie

Dataclysm is a book about using large sets of data to discover interesting truths that aren't immediately obvious or self-evident. Rudder is one of the founders of OKCupid, and as such, has unusual access to one of those large data sets - namely the hundreds of bits of information collected from ...