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A New York Times Bestseller

An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
 
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.
 
For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers.
 
In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible.
 
Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves—a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown; Reprint edition (September 8, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385347391
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385347396
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.75 x 7.97 inches
Reviewer: Michael Tapper
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: fascinating, insightful, hilarious
Review: This book is fascinating, insightful, and hilarious. It's sort of a survey of the types of things that are possible to see about the way people behave and who they are on a large scale at this moment in place and time. It's using Big Data to look at people's behaviors and preferences and so forth not to try to sell them something or to see if they're terrorists but just to see who we are as people, to help us see things about ourselves, and I think hopefully to help us ask ourselves some tough questions. It's not comprehensive, because considering the huge trove of data and the complexity of humans, that would be nearly impossible, but the areas the author chooses to examine are thoughtful, poignant, and at times downright surprising. A lot of things seem to just show things that we might have thought intuitively, but that didn't make it less fascinating to see the behavioral statistics showing it to be true. It's easy to be like, "men are like this and women are like this" or "black people are like this and white people are like this" or whatever, but to see some of this stuff borne out so starkly in the data, I thought it was incredible. And the writing is highly readable. Somehow he turns a book about data into an enjoyable page-turner that I didn't want to put down. Much of the book is laugh-out-loud funny, while some sections are sobering, bordering on depressing. But none of it was dry or boring. And I'll probably read it again.

Reviewer: Michael Flynn
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A good read, but disappointing to a follower of OKTrends
Review: When I was a kid I always wondered if there was a mysterious algorithm that, if given certain quantitative measures of a person's being, could spit out the name of the person who was most "matched" with them, their soul mate. Now that I'm older I realized that's a very naive way of thinking about the landscape of your possible relationships, but still the curiosity still burns underneath. That curiosity brought me to sites like OKCupid, "just to see" what they had implemented as their algorithm. It turns out that it is not terribly nuanced. The author of this book, Christian Rudder, wrote blog posts on its efficacy hinting that it could explain around 3% of the variance in the outcome of a contact on the site. That's not a big effect, but it is interesting that it exists, and that's what got me interested in the blog it was posted in, OKTrends.OKTrends was (and still is) one of my favorite blogs. However it went offline for a long period of time, and eventually it came up that the reason was that Christian Rudder was writing a book, this book, that covered the same topics as the blog. Good, I thought, he deserves to make some money off of this good writing. However the anticipation got my hopes too high, I think, because when I sat down and read it, I found that much of the material he wrote about already was covered in the blogs. I guess I was hoping for more novelty, not just data points but insights, from OKCupid specifically.I still give the book 4 stars. It reads pleasantly and Rudder's prose keeps you entertained. The writing style is presented guided by Edward Tufte, so the graphs and charts and even the fonts look very clean. It has enough data factoids to make you feel like you learned something by the end, which is why I would recommend this book to a friend, but the importance of those factoids is debatable.

Reviewer: chris
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An excellent book about big data & the human condition within the online world.
Review: While the book was written in 2014, which was a much different time in the digital marketing world, it still provides insights on how we got to where we are. There is a fascinating section where he talks about not only what people have said throughout the lifespan of Okcupid but what we have to say. Big data has given the collective human race a little part of history, and we all come together to be a small part of history. On top of that, this book will give you tips on how mathematically to be more attractive and talks about a systemic form of racism that no one prior had ever researched. His banter is very conversational, but I would recommend taking at least one stat class to understand all the math behind the graphs fully. Also, if you like graphs like me, your in for a treat. This book is filled to the brim with graphs. This is a data story, and it's definitely written for the type of person who can get lost in the dreamy eyes of a good table. I wouldn't recommend the audiobook. It will read the information from the graph, and it makes for the book to have gratuitous sections where your being told a bunch of percentages. The charts don't need to be read to you. They tell a compelling story on their own. I also recommend spending the little extra on the hardcover version since it puts all the graphs in color, which looks nice and makes some of the graphs easier to read than if they were shades of black and white.

Reviewer: George
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A well-balanced, spherical approach on the data collected from Okcubid and some other sources in the last decade or so. Christian does an excellent job of not only presenting the statistics, but also explaining some of the norms, keeping an interesting storyline without adding too much personal opinion.

Reviewer: Geetesh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Data based content just gives pure insight into the topics given in Index

Reviewer: Mars
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Yea, so this book is about the numbers behind online dating. What does it mean to be in the top 10% looks wise vs average? What do men do and say vs what do women do and say. How many years younger are men looking? This guy knows because he runs one of the big online sites, he has all the stats and he is going to share them with you. Turns out men prefer younger women (is that really a surprise?), and women prefer taller men (you don't say!), turns out there are also racial preferences, pretty strong ones. This book is very interesting, eye opening and potentially depressing. If you want the whole truth, get it here, but maybe you'd prefer to stay ignorant & happy -- your call.

Reviewer: Juan Luis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Empieza un poco pesado pero después toma ritmo y comienza a ser muy interesante. Si estás buscando pareja en alguna aplicación y/o como es mi caso que soy profesor a nivel posgrado de estadística, este libro te llenará de inisghts sobre como proceder con esas citas a ciegas de Tinder.Me dio muy buenas ideas para mis clases de estadística y a mis alumnos les encantó el enfoque en que el autor expone algunos temas.

Reviewer: Tara E. Hunt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Is it odd that I was riveted through the entire book? How does someone make data so darn entertaining and interesting? Well, Christian Rudder does! I've now gifted this book to several clients and associates to demonstrate the power of data done right (tells the story). The only downside is that he's no longer with OK Cupid, so I worry there won't be a follow up! I miss his blog!