Outnumbered
From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Flter-bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
(Sprache: Englisch)
How do mathematics, statistics and algorithms monitor and control our lives? What shouldn't we worry about, and what ought to concern us? In this book, mathematician David Sumpter undertakes a first-hand exploration of the algorithmic world we now inhabit.
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How do mathematics, statistics and algorithms monitor and control our lives? What shouldn't we worry about, and what ought to concern us? In this book, mathematician David Sumpter undertakes a first-hand exploration of the algorithmic world we now inhabit.
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'Fascinating' Financial TimesAlgorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.
Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits. But how reliable is this data? Without understanding what mathematics can and can't do, it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives.
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:
Who are Cambridge Analytica? And what are they doing with our data?
How does Facebook build a 100-dimensional picture of your personality?
Are Google algorithms racist and sexist?
Why do election predictions fail so drastically?
Are algorithms that are designed to find criminals making terrible mistakes?
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, including Alex Kogan from the Cambridge Analytica story, 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.
A lot of people feel outnumbered by algorithms - don't be one of them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Outnumbered “
PART 1: ANALYSING USChapter 1: Finding Banksy
Chapter 2: Make Some Noise
Chapter 3: The Principal Components of Friendship
Chapter 4: One Hundred Dimensions of You
Chapter 5: Cambridge Hyperbolytica
Chapter 6: Impossibly Unbiased
Chapter 7: The Data Alchemists
PART 2: INFLUENCING US
Chapter 8: Nate Silver vs the Rest of Us
Chapter 9: We ' Also Liked ' the Internet
Chapter 10: The Popularity Contest
Chapter 11: Bubbling Up
Chapter 12: Football Matters
Chapter 13: Who Reads Fake News?
PART 3: BECOMING US
Chapter 14: Learning to be Sexist
Chapter 15: The Only Thought Between the Decimal
Chapter 16: Kick Your Ass at Space Invaders
Chapter 17: The Bacterial Brain
Chapter 18: Back to Reality
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Autoren-Porträt von David Sumpter
David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading to Sweden. An incomplete list of applied maths research projects on which David has worked include pigeons flying in pairs over Oxford; the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; fish swimming between coral in the Great Barrier Reef; swarms of locusts traveling across the Sahara; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by Japanese slime moulds.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Sumpter
- 2018, Export/Airside., 272 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1472947436
- ISBN-13: 9781472947437
Sprache:
Englisch
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