{"id":73032,"date":"2022-07-17T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=73032"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:54:38","slug":"seth-stephens-davidowitz-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/seth-stephens-davidowitz-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Why Big Data Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is big data? Why does Seth Stephens-Davidowitz care about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Everybody Lies<\/em>, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/big-data-information\/\">information from big data<\/a> can be used for the greater good. But to do so, data researchers have to understand big data\u2019s inherent strengths\u2014and avoid its inherent weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about big data, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz&#8217;s definition of it, and why it&#8217;s important for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Data?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-look-at-the-bigger-picture\/\">look at the bigger picture<\/a> of what big data is and why Seth Stephens-Davidowitz says we should care about big data. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues that it\u2019s really an extension of our natural intuition and of the kinds of studies social scientists have always been interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Is \u201cBig Data\u201d?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephens-Davidowitz explicitly refuses to define \u201cbig data,\u201d arguing that the only way to do so is by assigning an arbitrary numerical cutoff\u2014in other words, by deciding that if you have at least X data points, you have big data. While it\u2019s fair to say that big data is a somewhat fluid concept, other data experts accept that there are some key characteristics that we can use to pin down \u201cbig data.\u201d Chief among these characteristics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/big-data\/what-is-big-data\">the \u201cthree Vs\u201d:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Volume: <\/strong>The sheer amount of data. As you\u2019d expect, big data implies very large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/multiple-data-sets\/\">data sets<\/a>, typically measured in terabytes or petabytes. In refusing to define big data, Stephens-Davidowitz is mostly refusing to identify a specific volume at which data becomes big.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Velocity: <\/strong>With big data, new information comes in fast. If your data set consists of Twitter posts, for example, you\u2019re taking in an average of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetlivestats.com\/twitter-statistics\/\">6,000 new tweets <em>per second<\/em><\/a>. Note that not all of the data Stephens-Davidowitz uses is high velocity. Google search results are; historical census databases aren\u2019t. But as we\u2019ll see later in this guide, big data techniques can yield new insights into older data that has accumulated gradually over time.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Variety: <\/strong>Big data comes in many forms (text, video, audio, and so on) and doesn\u2019t fit neatly into a standardized database. Stephens-Davidowitz does talk about data variety, as we\u2019ll see, though he doesn\u2019t explicitly say that variety is one of the defining characteristics of big data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Extending Our Intuition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues that when used well, big data is an extension of our natural intuition (though as we\u2019ll see in a moment, it often defies our intuitive expectations and assumptions). He says that one of our basic activities as humans is spotting patterns and cause-effect relationships to make predictions. Good data science, he says, is just an expanded, more rigorous version of this activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong>data science has two advantages over our natural intuition: It can consider much bigger sample sizes, and it doesn\u2019t get distracted by compelling stories.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Power of Bigger Samples<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the problems with human intuition is that we can only base our judgments on our own knowledge and experience. For example, a teacher grading an essay might suspect that a student copied material from a source. That suspicion often depends on previous knowledge\u2014for example, how similar the paper is to previous plagiarism cases the teacher has encountered and how different the questionable passages are from that student\u2019s previous writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, it\u2019s hard to enforce plagiarism penalties based only on suspicion. But online plagiarism checkers\u2014which compare the text in question to materials published on the web as well as to databases of other student papers\u2014allow teachers to easily check questionable essays against millions of potential text matches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: When it comes to human judgment, larger sample sizes (which often come with age and experience) can create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5978695\/\">overconfidence bias<\/a> and prevent a person from recognizing deviations. For example, the longer a teacher teaches, the more likely she is to assume that she can recognize a cheater; this overconfidence can prevent the teacher from evaluating individual cases with thoughtful analysis.) &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defying Conventional Wisdom<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Stephens-Davidowitz, another advantage data has over human intuition is that it isn\u2019t beholden to conventional wisdom. Stephens-Davidowitz argues that humans are overly influenced by a good story, which leads us to make faulty predictions or explanations because they sound good or fit a preconceived notion. For example, sports commentators will often laud players for consistently getting clutch hits or hitting high-pressure shots\u2014but data analysis suggests that clutch performance is mostly a <a href=\"http:\/\/research.sabr.org\/journals\/the-statistical-mirage-of-clutch-hitting\">statistical mirage<\/a> rather than a repeatable skill.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-data-gives-the-social-sciences-more-rigor\"><strong>Data Gives the Social Sciences More Rigor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to improving on our natural intuition, <strong>data studies can make the social sciences more rigorous<\/strong>. Stephens-Davidowitz notes that traditionally, there\u2019s a divide between hard sciences (such as physics and chemistry) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/soft-sciences\/\">soft sciences<\/a> (such as psychology and sociology). That divide boils down to differences in method and types of evidence, with critics accusing the social sciences of advancing theories that can\u2019t be falsified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephens-Davidowitz gives the example of Freud\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/theories-of-sexuality\/\">theories of sexuality<\/a>, which Freud based on his own observations and interpretations rather than on experimental evidence. Stephens-Davidowitz shows how Google and Pornhub search data let us test these previously untestable ideas (he finds no evidence for Freud\u2019s claim that phallic symbols in dreams reveal latent desires; on the other hand, he finds a surprising number of searches for parent-child incest videos, suggesting some truth to Freud\u2019s Oedipal theory).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is big data? Why does Seth Stephens-Davidowitz care about it? In Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz says information from big data can be used for the greater good. But to do so, data researchers have to understand big data\u2019s inherent strengths\u2014and avoid its inherent weaknesses. 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