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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an author, data scientist, and speaker who studies what we can learn about people from new, internet data sources. His 2017 book Everybody Lies was a New York Times bestseller and an Economist Book of the Year. Seth is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times and has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School and a data scientist at Google. He received his BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and his PhD in economics from Harvard in 2013. He is a passionate fan of the Knicks, Mets, Jets, and Leonard Cohen.