Nudging and Data Science

I’ve recently been reading a great book on how people make decisions and what organizations can do to help folks make better choices. That book is Nudge. What is a nudge? The authors describe a nudge as anything that can influence the way we make decisions. Take the primacy affect, for instance, namely the idea that order matters in a series of items. We’re more likely to recall the first or last option in a list of items simply because of their positions.