How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Wiggins Chris
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Wiggins Chris From facial recognition--capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents--to…
Specifikacia How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Wiggins Chris
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms Wiggins Chris
From facial recognition--capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L.
By understanding the trajectory of data--where it has been and where it might yet go--Wiggins and Jones argue that we can
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