Wickson-Nickless Lecture - “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us”

Name: Wickson-Nickless Lecture - “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us”
Start: 2025-10-14T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 7400 Bay Rd, Saginaw, MI, United States, Michigan 48604

Schedule

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

7400 Bay Rd, Saginaw, MI, United States, Michigan 48604 | Saginaw, MI

WICKSON-NICKLESS DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP IN BUSINESS
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us
Guest speaker: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Ph.D.
Tuesday, Oct. 14 | 6:30 p.m.
Rhea Miller Recital Hall, SVSU's Curtiss Hall
Dr. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist, New York Times
bestselling author and sought-after keynote speaker. His 2017
book, “Everybody Lies,” about the secrets revealed in internet
data, was a New York Times bestseller and an Economist Book
of the Year. “Don’t Trust Your Gut,”(2022) on how people can use
data to best achieve their life goals, was excerpted in the New York Times, the Atlantic and Wired. Stephens-Davidowitz’s 2023 book, “Who Makes the NBA,” an experimental exploration of how AI can transform the creative process, and was praised by NBA players, sports executives and technologists.
Dr. Stephens-Davidowitz has published research in top academic journals and has consulted for top companies. He partnered with Oracle on the ground-breaking Decision Dilemma study. Seth received a BA in philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in economics from Harvard. He is also a graduate of the American Comedy Institute, where he studied while he was burned out on academia. His comedy mentor convinced him not to try to be a full-time stand-up comedian but instead return to his PhD program and aim to be “an unusually funny economist.”
== ABOUT THE LECTURE ==
The Wickson-Nickless Distinguished Lectureship in Business provides forums to study and debate contemporary events and issues that influence business policies and behavior. The lectureship honors the late James E. Wickson and Allen E. Nickless, prominent business and community leaders of Frankenmuth. The program is supported by an endowment established by the Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation and the Allen E. and Marie A. Nickless Memorial Foundation.
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