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Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Artikel-Nr:
9780553418835
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.09.2017
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Cathy O’Neil
Gewicht:
218 g
Format:
202x131x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people s purchases and clicks. O Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of Doing Data Science. She is currently a columnist for Bloomberg View.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword
A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times
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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. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.
A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point
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. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.