Big Data and the Unexpected Public

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Some books I've read that fall close to Freakonomics, rely on big data, or that otherwise surprise with information you are unlikely to run into elsewhere.

  1. The myth of choice by 

    An account of the constraints on personal choice, and the consequences of those constraints for everyday life. Greenfield poses unsettling …

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  2. Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood by 

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  3. Young Men with Unlimited Capital : The Story of Woodstock by ,

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  4. My Years with General Motors by 

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  5. Underground America by  (Voice of witness)

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  6. Diary of a Man in Despair by 

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  7. The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 by  (A Bantam book)

    The systematic annihilation of six million Jews during World War II is the single most horrifying event of the twentieth …

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  8. Outposts by 

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  9. Nickel and Dimed by 

    The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.

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