Secret Science Club presents Data Scientist & Author
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Everybody
Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really
Are, THURSDAY, May 25, 8PM @ the Bell House, FREE!
The traces of our private thoughts are everywhere online.
What we won’t share with our friends and loved ones, we just might ask Google about. The patterns of billions of searches (for
information, mates, etc.) suggest a fascinating
idea: the internet may be the ultimate truth serum.
Using data from
Google, social media, dating, and even porn sites, data scientist and author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz asks: How much sex do people really have? What can
Google searches tell us about racism
in America?
What do people actually care about during elections?
Are boys and girls treated equally
by parents? What should you say on a first date if you want a second? Which of their own body
parts intrigues men most?
The results
of Stephens-Davidowitz’s
deep data dives reveal insights into the human psyche that are by turns surprising, dismaying, funny, and
disturbing.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Google data
scientist, New York Times contributing
writer, and lecturer at the University
of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Stephens-Davidowitz and his research have been featured on the BBC, CNN,
NPR, Freakonomics Radio, and Buzzfeed.
Everybody
Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really
Are is his first book.
Before & After
--Try our survey—wait.. no, our cocktail of the night—the Not-So-Random
Sample
--Groove to soul-searching tunes
--Stick around for the
scintillating Q&A
--Snag a signed copy of Seth
Stephens-Davidowitz’s new book, Everybody Lies
This searchable edition of the Secret Science Club meets THURSDAY, May
25, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St.
(between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Subway: F or G to 4th Ave;
R to 9th Street.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just
bring your smart self!