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portada Weapons of Math Destruction: How big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6x13x1.8 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 - Cathy O'Neil

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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.
Cathy O'Neil
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Cathy O’Neil (EE. UU., 1972) obtuvo un doctorado en Matemáticas de Harvard, fue postdoctorada en el departamento de Matemáticas del MIT y profesora en el Barnard College, donde publicó una serie de trabajos de investigación en geometría algebraica aritmética. Luego se cambió al sector privado, trabajando como experta en análisis y gestión de información cuantitativa para el fondo de cobertura D. E. Shaw en medio de la crisis crediticia, y luego para RiskMetrics, una compañía de software de riesgo que evalúa el riesgo para las tenencias de fondos de cobertura y bancos. Tras desencantarse del mundo de las finanzas, O’Neil se involucró con el movimiento Occupy Wall Street, participando en su Grupo de Banca Alternativa. Dejó las finanzas definitivamente en 2011 y comenzó a trabajar como científica de datos en el sector de start-ups de Nueva York, creando modelos que predecían las compras y los clics de las personas. Es coautora de Doing Data Science (2013). En 2016 publicó en EE. UU. Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy, editado en España por Capitán Swing en 2017 bajo el título Armas de destrucción matemática. Cómo el big data aumenta la desigualdad y amenaza la democracia.
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Bruno Jaraba Thursday, 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 Gómez Monday, April 17, 2023
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Actual e importante

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 Andres Barzallo Sunday, February 23, 2025
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El libro llego en excelentes condiciones y en el tiempo establecido. Es un libro que nos muestra el poder de los datos para tomar decisiones

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