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2017-07-06
Title
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality a
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ISBN
9780141985411
Subject Area
Political Science
Publication Name
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Subject
Economics, Computer Science, Science, Politics
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
198 mm
Author
Cathy O'Neil
Item Weight
202 g
Item Width
129 mm
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness- everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination, creating a toxic cocktail for democracy. Tracing the arc of a person's life, Cathy O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future as individuals and as a society. These weapons of math destruction score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters and monitor our health. O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives.

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Publication Name
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Economics, Computer Science, Science, Politics
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Textbook
Author
Cathy O'Neil
Subject Area
Political Science
Format
Paperback

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Item Weight
202 g
Item Width
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