Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy

25/09/2019 1h 40min
Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy

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Cathy O’Neil is a math Ph. D. from Harvard and a data-scientist who hopes to someday have a better answer to the question, “what can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better place?” In the meantime, she wrote a seminal book titled Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and […]

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