Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy /
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 by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judge...
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2016]
New York : Crown, [2016] |
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Table of 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
- 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
- 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
- 1 Bomb parts : what is a model?
- 2. Shell shocked : my journey of disillusionment
- 3. Arms race : going to college
- 4. Propaganda machine : online advertising
- 5. Civilian casualties : justice in the age of big data
- 6. Ineligible to serve : getting a job
- 7. Sweating bullets : on the job
- 8. Collateral damage
- 9. No safe zone : getting insurance
- 10. The targeted citizen : civic life.