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Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles - the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter

By: Language: eng Series: Bloomsbury sigma series ; 36Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781472947437
  • 1472947436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4834
LOC classification:
  • HM 846 S956o 2018
Contents:
Analysing us. Finding Banksy -- Make some noise -- The principal components of friendship -- One hundred dimensions of you -- Cambridge hyperbolytica -- Impossibly unbiased -- The data alchemists -- Influencing us. Nate Silver vs the rest of us -- We 'also liked' the internet -- The popularity contest -- Bubbling up -- Football matters -- Who reads fake news? -- Becoming us. Learning to be sexist -- The only thought between the decimal -- Kick your ass at Space Invaders -- The bacterial brain -- Back to reality.
Summary: "In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyse us., influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions such as: Are Google algorithms racist and sexist? ; Why do election predictions fall so drastically? ; What does the future hold as we relinquish our decision-making to machines? Featuring interviews with those working at the cutting edge of algorithm research, along with a healthy dose of mathematical self-experiment, Outnumbered will explain how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about."--from book cover
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 846 S956o 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000144021

'Featuring Cambridge analytica' -- on cover.

Analysing us. Finding Banksy -- Make some noise -- The principal components of friendship -- One hundred dimensions of you -- Cambridge hyperbolytica -- Impossibly unbiased -- The data alchemists -- Influencing us. Nate Silver vs the rest of us -- We 'also liked' the internet -- The popularity contest -- Bubbling up -- Football matters -- Who reads fake news? -- Becoming us. Learning to be sexist -- The only thought between the decimal -- Kick your ass at Space Invaders -- The bacterial brain -- Back to reality.

"In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyse us., influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions such as: Are Google algorithms racist and sexist? ; Why do election predictions fall so drastically? ; What does the future hold as we relinquish our decision-making to machines? Featuring interviews with those working at the cutting edge of algorithm research, along with a healthy dose of mathematical self-experiment, Outnumbered will explain how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about."--from book cover

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