On an average day, humans will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data searching the internet. Seth Stephen-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, shows your students how that data can be mined for valuable insight, from the hilarious to the horrifying. In the spirit of Freakonomics, Everybody Lies challenges our preconceived notions on how people think and explores how big data can be used in new and innovative ways. Freshman Common Read: Hamline University With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.