Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Flter-Bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives [Hardcover]
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Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Flter-Bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives [Hardcover]
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David Sumpter
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07/17/2018 00:00
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147294741X
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272
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Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms. Are we giving this up too easily? Without understanding what mathematics can and can't do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives. Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. David Sumpter investigates whether mathematics is crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about. This book will show how math impacts all parts of our lives: from the algorithms that decide whom we interact with to the statistical methods that categorize us as potential criminals. It tests financial algorithms that purport to generate money from nothing, and reveals that we are constantly manipulated by the math used by others, from algorithms choosing the news we hear to automated hospital waiting lists deciding whether we receive treatment. Using interviews with those people working at the cutting edge of mathematical and data research, Outnumbered will explain how math and stats work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about.
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The book, Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Flter-Bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9781472947413 in Hardcover by David Sumpter may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.