Not since FREAKONOMICS have I read a nonfiction pop science book as utterly fascinating as EVERYBODY LIES.

The fact that I was able to click the “I’m Finished” button at the end of this book (well, of course it says that it was a very well written and structured book... and/or it just says that I’m incredibly interested in the subject matter...) it says that there’s a data point available for us to use to empirically test those statements between the parentheses. We could use this in conjunction with the highlight data and narrow it down to just non-fiction books and find out what features make a non-fiction book “finishable.” Or would there be too many data points that we would suffer from the curse of dimensionality? Read this book and you too will begin to form questions like the above as well as ideas on how to test your hypotheses on them.

A good intro to the applications of data science. Definitely a lot of “pop” statistics but the author makes a very important point: much of the freely available data we have today is much more reliable than expensive survey data. A good read overall.

Any book that I enjoy reading, that stretches my mind, is a great read. Thanks for the work.

Eye opening.

Feeling sorry for those who didn't make it to the end, great book!

Quite thought provoking I read it over the weekend not able to stop. It gives you list of topics you want to read and think about more.