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

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2016 • 274 pages

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I really enjoyed the book and I would definitely recommend it to others. I actually have been actively trying to get more people to read it.

The book demystifies big data and statistics and raise awareness about the topic, through the chapters Cathy shows how deeply intertwined it is with public policies and day to day opportunities like buying a car or an apartment, getting affordable and good education for you or your children, even being stop by the police on the sole premise of ethnicity.

I think this is a good first book about the subject, most of the data is from US and a bit from Europe but consequences are global so it would be great to have more data from other countries as well.

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