Christian Rudder

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

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

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.

Dataclysm

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Who We are when We Think No One's Looking

An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, OkCupid, and many other sites, Rudder examines the terrain of human experience. He charts the rise and fall of America's most reviled word through Google Search, examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter, and 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. Audacious, entertaining, and illuminating, Dataclysm is a portrait of our essential selves--and a first look at a revolution in the making. --

Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

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Oregon

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

What Our Online Lives Tell us About our Offline Selves

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Texas

What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

Founder of OK Cupid, Christian Rudder, reveals the myriad and mind-blowing possibilities of harnessing big data, and explores what our digital footprints can tell us about human relationships.

In an hour, ten million pictures go up on Facebook. Each day, more people flirt on OkCupid than live in Chicago. We've all heard these types of numbers before; but in 'Datacysm', for the first time, we can actually feel their impact. We can see the actual information being created and what we can learn from it.



Christian Rudder is one of the founders of OK Cupid, America's biggest dating site, and so is in possession of one of the richest interpersonal datasets in the world. In this book, he takes data from OK Cupid, and also from other sites - Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, last.fm, LinkedIn, Uber, Reddit, and so on - all the messaging, the flirting, the posting, the trolling, the liking, the hating, and makes something wonderful.



While most popular nonfiction takes something small and uses it as a lens for big events, 'Dataclysm' does the opposite. It takes something big -- the enormous dataset of everything that we're doing and saying and thinking -- and teases from it many small things: how a joke changes in the telling, whether it really matters where you went to college, how people decide who's beautiful and who isn't. This book is a series of statistical vignettes, tiny windows, looking in on slices of life.



One day soon there will be many people whose entire lives have been mediated through their digital devices. Then we'll really be able to see what's what. In the meantime, with the data he has collected, Christian Rudder has forged a new genre of statistical writing, where numbers become narrative.

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