{"id":64,"date":"2017-06-06T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:23:15","slug":"former-google-data-scientist-explains-netflix-knows-better-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/former-google-data-scientist-explains-netflix-knows-better-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A former Google data scientist explains why Netflix knows you better than you know yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><div id=\"at_zurlpreview\">\n<h2>A former Google data scientist explains why Netflix knows you better than you know yourself<\/h2>\n<p class=\"imgp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg?ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgd\">Economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues that people tend to lie to themselves \u2014 including about the films they&#8217;re planning to watch in the future. Read out the following article to understand how Netflix system evolved over time to encourage you to watch movies or TV Series more often on the Netflix platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgs\">Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-data-scientist-explains-netflix-algorithm-2017-5\" xlink=\"href\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.businessinsider.com\/google-data-scientist-explains-netflix-algorithm-2017-5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google data scientist explains why Netflix knows you better than you know yourself Economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues that people tend to <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"read-more waves-effect waves-light btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/former-google-data-scientist-explains-netflix-knows-better-know\/\">  Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/53e791be6bb3f787294e541a-1190-625\/a-former-google-data-scientist-explains-why-netflix-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-netflix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}