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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
American data scientist and economist
Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz (born September 15, 1982)[1] is an American data scientist, economist, and author. He has worked as a New York Times op-ed contributor, a data scientist at Google,[2] as well as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[3][4] He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly.[5][6][7]
His first book Everybody Lies was published by HarperCollins in 2017. The book subsequently became a New York Times bestseller, and was named a book of the year by both PBS NewsHour and the Economist.[8]