American data scientist and former Google economist who pioneered the use of aggregate search data as a window into genuine human behavior — revealing that what people search in private diverges dramatically from what they report in surveys.
Demonstrated that Google search data constitutes a massive, honest dataset of human desires, fears, and behaviors — capturing what people actually think rather than what they say in surveys — producing findings about racism, sexuality, and mental health that survey data systematically conceals.
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