Description: Shipped the next dayWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination—propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. 10/14/23
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Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Programming / Algorithms, Public Policy / General, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Political Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Social Aspects / General, General, Research, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Statistics
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Computers, Social Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
Author: Cathy O'Neil
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
