TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Neil,Cathy
TI  - Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy 
SN  - 9780141985411 (pbk.) :
AV  - QA76.9.B45 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Big data
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Algorithms
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Computers and IT
N1  - Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination
ER  -