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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil
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Big Data's dark, undemocratic influence exposed.

If you've ever suspected that the digital algorithms dictating aspects of our lives could be biased or harmful, "Weapons of Math Destruction" lays out your fears in stark detail. Cathy O'Neil's expertise as a mathematician and data scientist provides an authoritative and frightening view of how big data can reinforce inequality. It's a potent warning bell for anyone concerned with the moral implications of technology on fairness and democracy.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil
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ISBN: 9780553418811
Author: Cathy O'Neil
Publisher: Crown
Date of Publication: 2016-09-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, Sociology, Business, Politics, Economics
Related Topics: Mathematics, Economics, Politics, Technology, Sociology, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 27035 readers)

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We 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.
 

Big Data's dark, undemocratic influence exposed.

If you've ever suspected that the digital algorithms dictating aspects of our lives could be biased or harmful, "Weapons of Math Destruction" lays out your fears in stark detail. Cathy O'Neil's expertise as a mathematician and data scientist provides an authoritative and frightening view of how big data can reinforce inequality. It's a potent warning bell for anyone concerned with the moral implications of technology on fairness and democracy.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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