Dataclysm
Love, Sex, Race, and Identity#What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves
An international bestseller, provocative, illuminating and visually arresting, Dataclysm is a portrait of how big data reveals our essential selves--and a first look at a revolution in the making.
What is the secret to a stable marriage? How many gay people are still in the closet? Do we truly live in a postracial society? Has Twitter made us dumber? These are just a few of the questions Christian Rudder answers in Dataclysm, a smart, funny, irreverent look at how we act when we think no one's looking. For centuries we've relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behaviour. Today a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly,…
$22.00
September 8, 2015
Christian Rudder is a co-founder and former president of the dating site OkCupid, where he authored the popular OkTrends blog. He graduated from Harvard in 1998 with a degree in math and later served as creative director for SparkNotes. He has appeared on Dateline NBC and NPR's "All Things Considered" and his work has been written about in the New York Times and the New Yorker, among other places. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
