Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles : the algorithms that control our lives
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles : the algorithms that control our lives
AUTHOR:
Sumpter, David J. T., 1973-
ISBN:
9781472947437
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
"Featuring Cambridge Analytica"--On cover.
CONTENTS:
part 1. Analysing us: Finding Banksy ; Make some noise ; The principal components of friendship ; One hundred dimensions of you ; Cambridge hyperbolytica ; Impossibly unbiased ; The data alchemists -- part 2. 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? -- part 3. Becoming us: Learning to be sexist ; The only thought between the decimal ; Kick your ass at "Space invaders" -- The bacterial brain -- Back to reality.
ABSTRACT:
"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.
SUBJECT_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Internet -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Internet marketing -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Internet advertising -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Social media -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Fake news -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Mathematical models -- Social aspects. |
| Human behavior -- Mathematical models. |
| Algorithms -- Social aspects. |
| Social indicators -- Mathematical models. |
| Big data -- Social aspects. |
BIBSUMMARY:
"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."--