In a fascinating new book, a former Google data scientist offers a whole chapter about his brief misadventures in trying to apply big data — what we know from massive amounts of Internet searches — to investing.
The chapter, part of the book “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, opens with a meeting between the author and Larry Summers, the well-known economist and former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton.
