The veritasium of data.
I came across an interesting fact from the podcast " Seen and the unseen " hosted by Amit Varma; If you search on google "My husband wants me to.." the top autocomplete suggestion in India and Bangladesh is " breastfeed-him". A statistical answer to such a private fact captivated me and led me to follow a rabbit hole into knowing about Seth-Stephen Davidowitz, a trained economist looking at big data from tech giants to answer some difficult questions. Let's start off by complimenting the cover of the book Everybody Lies (shown below). Pictorial representation of the camouflaged elephant in the room is an apt representation for a book on lying. Some notable key insights that speak for the revolutionary nature of the book, 1. The effect of cold on depression searches: Cold places search more for depression-related terms than warmer climates. Intuitive right? It goes on further to explain that the effectiveness of warmer weather is twice the effectivenes