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Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy / Cathy O'Neil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neil, Cathy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big data--Social aspects--United States.
- Big data.
- Big data--Political aspects--United States.
- Social indicators--Mathematical models--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Social indicators.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Social indicators--Mathematical models.
- Big data--Political aspects.
- Big data--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- 2000s.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Datasets as Topic--statistics & numerical data.
- Politics.
- Data Accuracy.
- Data Mining--methods.
- Social Environment.
- Medical Subjects:
- 2000s.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Datasets as Topic--statistics & numerical data.
- Politics.
- Data Accuracy.
- Data Mining--methods.
- Social Environment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 259 pages.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Bomb parts: What is a model?
- Shell shocked: My journey of disillusionment
- Arms race: Going to college
- Propaganda machine: Online advertising
- Civilian casualties: Justice in the age of big data
- Ineligible to serve: Getting a job
- Sweating bullets: On the job
- Collateral damage: Landing credit
- No safe zone: Getting insurance
- The targeted citizen: Civic life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: O'Neil, Cathy. Weapons of math destruction.
- ISBN:
- 9780553418828
- 0553418823
- Publisher Number:
- 99977693566
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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