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Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy  Cover Image Book Book

Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy

O'Neil, Cathy (author.).

Summary: "A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.

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  • ISBN: 9780553418835
  • ISBN: 0553418831
  • ISBN: 9780451497338
  • ISBN: 0451497333
  • ISBN: 9780553418828
  • ISBN: 978055341811
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 275 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published by Crown in 2016.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Big data -- Social aspects -- United States
Big data -- Political aspects -- United States
Social indicators -- Mathematical models -- Moral and ethical aspects
Democracy -- United States
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Legislative Library.

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Legislative Library, Vaughan Street QA 76.9 .B45 One (Text) 36970100055807 General Collection Volume hold Available -

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