Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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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<br> <br>"A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent."-Financial Times<br> <br>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Boston Globe • Wired • Fortune • Kirkus Reviews • The Guardian • Nature • On Point<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.

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EAN

9780553418835

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 131 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US