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Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy /
O'Neil, Cathy,
Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy / Cathy O'Neil. - First edition. - x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index.
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.
9780553418811 (hardcover) 9780553418835 (softcover)
2016003900
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.
QA76.9.B45 / O64 2016
005.7 ONE
Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy / Cathy O'Neil. - First edition. - x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index.
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.
9780553418811 (hardcover) 9780553418835 (softcover)
2016003900
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.
QA76.9.B45 / O64 2016
005.7 ONE