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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

When scaled models punish people who cannot see or appeal the score.

Crown Publishing Group NY6 September 2016Book available to purchase

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  • Algorithms
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Cathy O'Neil on mathematical models that scale harmful decisions in credit, hiring, policing, and education when they are opaque and hard to appeal.

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Cathy O'Neil (6 September 2016). Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy [Book]. Crown Publishing Group NY. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction

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@misc{weapons_of_math_destruction,
  author = {Cathy O'Neil},
  title = {{Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy}},
  howpublished = {Crown Publishing Group NY},
  url = {https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction},
  year = {2016},
  isbn = {9780553418811}
}
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