Oh yes, hello humans, welcome back to Modern Wisdom.

My guest today is Seth Stevens-Davidowitz.

He is a former data scientist at Google, now turned author and writer.

We're talking about big data today.

Previously, we touched on something similar actually.

If you listen to the episode I did with Professor David Carroll, one of the main guys in Netflix

is the great hack documentary.

But rather than working out the ethical concerns of whether or not we should be concerned

about people capturing our data, we're actually going into the data itself anonymously.

You see, the fact of the matter is that Google knows things about you that even your closest

friends don't, because the things that you type into a search engine in the privacy

of your own web browsing are often things that you've never told anybody else.

So in short, Seth has a window into your soul that maybe you didn't even know was there

and we're going to look at it today.

So get ready for this one.

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Now please welcome the wise and wonderful Seth Stevens-Davidowitz.

So first things first, how do you describe what you do for work on a day-to-day basis?

Well, so I guess I'm a data scientist and an author, writer.

So I spent most of my time on books.

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