Dataclysm

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Dataclysm
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First edition (publ. Crown Publishing)
Author Christian Rudder
Publisher Crown Publishing
Publication date
September 9, 2014
ISBN 978-0-38-534737-2

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) is a book by OkCupid founder Christian Rudder that discusses how the vast trove of aggregated online data about individuals helps explain everything from political beliefs to speech patterns. [1] [2] [3] [4] Much of the book details his findings after mining his own dataset in OkCupid.

Dataclysm was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Nonfiction. [5]

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  2. Paumgarten, Nick (August 25, 2014). "Make Me a Match". The New Yorker . Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
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