Release Date:- 2016-09-06
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabricāwith a new afterword
āA manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.āāFinancial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST ā¢ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ā¢ The Boston Globe ā¢ Wired ā¢ Fortune ā¢ Kirkus Reviews ā¢ The Guardian ā¢ Nature ā¢ On Point
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our livesāwhere we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insuranceāare 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 OāNeil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when theyāre wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discriminationāpropping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.