OK Cupid's Founder on Statistical Storytelling

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 10, 2014

OK Cupid co-founder and president and the author of Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) (Crown, 2014), Christian Rudder, discusses how digital data - all the stuff we like on Facebook, Tweets we post and what we Google - provides an up-to-date narrative that helps us understand human nature. 

→ Event: Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on 9/11 at 7pm.

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