Everybody Lies

Everybody Lies

2017 • 352 pages

Ratings47

Average rating3.7

15

It was touch and go with this book. I was halfway into it and ready to put it aside, funny curiosities about what people search on Google or what Facebook data says about us simply doesn't cut if for me anymore. I think Yuval Noah Harari set the bar too high in Homo Deus, by covering most interesting findings big data has to offer in an elegant and concise manner.
However, the second half of the book covers a bit more of human behaviour, data misrepresentations and the extent to which big data can be applied. I found that to be unique and informative enough to do some research on my own.
Although Big Data is no longer considered to be the new kid on the block, it is still very important (Google and Facebook are definitely making a hefty profit out of it), but the sooner fields like psychology, sociology, anthropology are going to embrace it, the better for us as human beings.

March 9, 2018Report this review