How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms - Hardcover

Wiggins, Chris; Jones, Matthew L.

 
9781324006732: How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1324006730 ISBN 13: 9781324006732
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2023

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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. But these technologies didn’t just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from 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 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. By understanding the trajectory of data―where it has been and where it might yet go―Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand how to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, is the New York Times’s chief data scientist. He lives in New York City.

Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Princeton University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives outside Princeton, New Jersey.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324006730
ISBN 13 
9781324006732
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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