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A sweeping history of data and its technical, political and ethical impact on our world
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 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. 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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About the Author
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times’s chief data scientist. He resides in New York City.<br /><br />Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Columbia University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He resides in New York City.
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- PublisherWW Norton & Co
- Publication date2023
- ISBN 10 1324006730
- ISBN 13 9781324006732
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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