Review
Fascinating and deeply disturbing — Yuval Noah Harari ― Guardian Books of the Year
This is a manual for the 21st-century citizen, and it succeeds where other big data accounts have failed – it is accessible, refreshingly critical and feels relevant and urgent — Federica Cocco ― Financial Times
Well-written, entertaining and very valuable — Danny Dorling ― Times Higher Education
O’Neil has become a whistle-blower for the world of Big Data… Her work makes particularly disturbing points about how being on the wrong side of an algorithmic decision can snowball in incredibly destructive ways ― Time
Cathy O’Neil has seen Big Data from the inside, and the picture isn’t pretty. Weapons of Math Destruction opens the curtain on algorithms that exploit people and distort the truth while posing as neutral mathematical tools. This book is wise, fierce, and desperately necessary — Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong
Weapons of Math Destruction is a fantastic, plainspoken call to arms. Cathy O’Neil’s book is important precisely because she believes in data science. It’s a vital crash course in why we must interrogate the systems around us and demand better — Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and co-editor of Boing Boing
Often we don’t even know where to look for those important algorithms, because by definition the most dangerous ones are also the most secretive. That’s why the catalogue of case studies in O’Neil’s book are so important; she’s telling us where to look ― Guardian
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Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780141985411
- Publisher: Penguin
- Published: July 2017
- Pages: 272
- Binding: Paperback
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