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portada Weapons of Math Destruction: How big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Physical Book
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Publisher
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6 x 13.0 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.20 kg.
ISBN13
9780553418835
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil (Author) · Crown Publishing Group (NY) · Paperback

Weapons of Math Destruction: How big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - O'Neil, Cathy

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Synopsis "Weapons of Math Destruction: How big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A 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 "A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent."--Financial Times NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Boston Globe - Wired - Fortune - Kirkus Reviews - The Guardian - Nature - On Point We 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. But 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.

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Bruno JarabaThursday, August 26, 2021
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Escrito por una experta y testigo directo del ascenso de los métodos algorítmicos para la gestión de la vida social, este libro ofrece un detallado análisis de los riesgos y los daños actuales causados por la implementación descontrolada de las nuevas tecnologías.

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Julián GómezMonday, April 17, 2023
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