{"product_id":"weapons-of-math-destruction-how-big-data-increases-inequality-and-threatens-democracy-9780553418835","title":"Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.\"--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eWired \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eFortune \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eNature \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eOn Point\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCathy O'Neil\u003c\/b\u003e is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people's purchases and clicks. O'Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of \u003ci\u003eDoing Data Science\u003c\/i\u003e. She is currently a columnist for \u003ci\u003eBloomberg View\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50597939872018,"sku":"9780553418835","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c23d6fb9-661e-47ca-bdb0-ed4241f1b9b5.jpg?v=1732180754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/weapons-of-math-destruction-how-big-data-increases-inequality-and-threatens-democracy-9780553418835","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}