Weapons of Math Destruction
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Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'neil
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
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.
Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and the creator of the mathbabe.org blog. She is a Ph.D. holder. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before joining the commercial sector to work for the hedge fund D.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553418835 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553418831 |
| Title | Weapons of Math Destruction |
| Author | Cathy O'neil |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2017-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Euler Book Prize. |
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