Dataclysm

2014-09-09 Social Science

Author : Christian Rudder
Release : 2014-09-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dataclysm written by Christian Rudder. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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2019-05-30

Author : Carleen Tibbetts
Release : 2019-05-30
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Book Rating : 242/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book DATACLYSM. Jpg written by Carleen Tibbetts. This book was released on 2019-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry

Skin Horse

2012 American poetry

Author : Olivia Cronk
Release : 2012
Genre : American poetry
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Book Rating : 036/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Skin Horse written by Olivia Cronk. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Like a secret date with Lizzie Borden, these moody lyrics thrill as they incriminate. SKIN HORSE shows that history is a crime scene, and that crime is theatrical, rife with costumes, masks, hats, props, weapons, scripts, dialogue, wooden scenery and dreamlike reenactments. These poems are anachronistic yet uncannily alive, furtive yet frank like an incriminating note forgotten in an apron pocket. Cronk locks words together like a lace collar which flutters attractively even as it tightens at the reader's throat. She writes, "with velvet trim / in the whistle of seeing." She writes, "Is it too untoward to say Please Go Back to Normal Life?" She writes, "Gotta nest of woe a nest of wail / and pardon my tied-on prom." "If 'the wind cries Mary' sounds to you more like 'The ring pulsed Maria' then you have your ears tuned to Cronk's idiosyncratic sonics. You can't be overtly prepared for Cronk's directions, all you can do is gladly if a little hesitantly follow the paths her word combinations offer: 'Back in the city in chains........ trees typewritering....... I am indeed a nurse.' SKIN HORSE will stimulate some neurons to try some new actions, to scare up some gathering, to be thrilled to be amongst her magnifications." Dara Wier "Welcome to SKIN HORSE: Olivia Cronk's topographical map of a version of the world in which deformed humans squirm through the muck of a mutilated nature: a burning zone of mechanical, brain-dripping horrors, a degraded rendering of the extreme consequences of natural and corporal decay." Daniel Borzutzky"

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2015-06-07

Author : Summary Station
Release : 2015-06-07
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Book Rating : 028/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dataclysm (Summary) written by Summary Station. This book was released on 2015-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn About How Your Online Data Is Being Used In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!! Today only, get this 1# Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $9.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device This book is chalk full interesting data about how people perceive themselves and each other. The information is boiled down so that it is easy to read and analyze yourself. Rudder has lots of data from different sites including three different online dating sites, social media sites as well as the popular search engine Google.com. One of the most fascinating points is when he talks about what makes women attractive to men. Which is the opposite of what society has often said. It is interesting to see how all the data comes together to form a picture of what a modern, social media using, online dating, American. He brings together information from men and women and from the four largest ethnicities, Asians, African Americans, Latinos and Caucasian. He analyzes data based on a couples' Facebook pages that shows how integrated they are in each other's lives. He sets the information up in a form that is easy to see and interesting. He also provides a link to where readers can analyze their own Facebook pages and relationships. Leading the reader to plug their own information into an algorithm, really helps them feel personally attached to the information. It also makes the data easier to understand. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn When You Download Your Copy Today * How Everything You Do Online Is Being Collected As Data* The Reason Why Data Can Be Used To Prideict Things About The User * Learn How Dating And Social Media Sites Are Categorizing Thier Users Download Your Copy Today! The contents of this book are easily worth over $9.99, but for a limited time you can download the summary of "Dataclysm" by Christian Rudder for a special discounted price of only $2.99

The Impulse Society

2014-09-02 Social Science

Author : Paul Roberts
Release : 2014-09-02
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Impulse Society written by Paul Roberts. This book was released on 2014-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's something most of us have sensed for years-the rise of a world defined only by “mine” and “now.” A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term fixes over broad, sustainable social progress; where individuals feel increasingly exploited by a marketplace obsessed with our private cravings yet oblivious to our spiritual well-being or the larger needs of our families and communities. At the heart of The Impulse Society is an urgent, powerful story: how the pursuit of short-term self-gratification, once scorned as a sign of personal weakness, became the default principle not only for individuals, but for all sectors of our society. Drawing on the latest research in economics, psychology, political philosophy, and business management, Paul Roberts shows how a potent combination of rapidly advancing technologies, corrupted ideologies, and bottom-line business ethics has pushed us across a threshold to an unprecedented state: a virtual merging of the market and the self. The result is a socioeconomic system ruled by impulse, by the reflexive, id-like drive for the largest, quickest, most “efficient” reward, without regard for long-term costs to ourselves or to broader society. More than thirty years ago, Christopher Lasch hinted at this bleak world in his landmark book, The Culture of Narcissism. In The Impulse Society, Roberts shows how that self-destructive pattern has grown so pervasive that anxiety and emptiness are becoming embedded in our national character. Yet it is in this unease that Roberts finds clear signs of change-and broad revolt as millions of Americans try step off the self-defeating treadmill of gratification and restore a sense of balance. Fresh, vital, and free of ideological, right-wing/left-wing formulations, The Impulse Society shows the way back to a world of real and lasting good.

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