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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Author: Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant 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 -- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance -- are being made not ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553418811
ISBN-10: 0553418815
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Crown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A book with "math" in the title that doesn't have equations? This book is about how models are used and mostly misued. The author is a mathematician who used to work at a hedge fund and as a data scientist at a start up offering models to predict the behavior of internet shoppers. She had a change of heart, because this book is full of examples of how Big Data is evil.


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