Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Some of the enthusiasm for the data revolution’s potential has been misplaced. Most of those enamored with Big Data gush about how immense these datasets can get. This obsession with dataset size is not new. Before Google, Amazon, and Facebook, before the phrase “Big Data” existed, a conference was held in Dallas, Texas, on “Large and Complex Datasets.”