Dataclysm Summary

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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.

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•How Everything You Do Online Is Being Collected As Data

•The Reason Why Data Can Be Used To Predict Things About The User

•Learn How Dating And Social Media Sites Are Categorizing Their Users

• Language: English
• Publisher: Summary Station
• Release date: Sep 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370780693

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Summary and Analysis of Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) by Christian Rudder

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Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2015

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Analysis

Chapter 1

Christian Rudder starts this first chapter by noting how people notice the passage of time. He notes that there are thousands of different cures for aging because since the beginning of time people have been obsessed with aging. He recalls what his own childhood bedroom was like and relates the walls of that bedroom to social media sites such as Facebook and Myspace. Almost everyone has their own page for their thoughts and actions to be broadcast to the rest of the world and they will be there for at least the foreseeable future. Each person will be able to look back at the digital walls of their childhood and be able to show them to their own children.

He states that this type of data is what scientists call longitudinal data from following the same people over a generous stretch of time. Even though this data is not complete and in fact it is only 6-years-old. This data will enable scientists to reach all kinds of conclusions about modern human life, although not everything can be calculated this way, there are certain things that are constant including age, sex and beauty.

To emphasize this point he recalls the preferences