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The Shame Machine

O'Neil, Cathy
The Shame Machine
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as best-selling author Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is incr...

CHF 22.90

The Shame Machine

O'Neil, Cathy
The Shame Machine
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is increasingly being weaponized -- used as a way to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals. Shaming children for not being able ...

CHF 35.50

The Shame Machine

O'Neil, Cathy
The Shame Machine
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics-from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction"O'Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy."-Dave Eggers, author of The EveryShame is a powerful and s...

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The Shame Machine

O'Neil, Cathy
The Shame Machine
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyper-partisan politics-from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math DestructionShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in...

CHF 34.50

Armi di distruzione matematica. Come i big data aumentano...

O'Neil, Cathy / Cavallini, D.
Armi di distruzione matematica. Come i big data aumentano la disuguaglianza e minacciano la democrazia
Lungi dall'essere modelli matematici oggettivi e trasparenti, gli algoritmi che ormai dominano la nostra quotidianità iperconnessa sono spesso vere e proprie "armi di distruzione matematica": non tengono conto di variabili fondamentali, incorporano pregiudizi e se sbagliano non offrono possibilità di appello. Queste armi pericolose giudicano insegnanti e studenti, vagliano curricula, stabiliscono se concedere o negare prestiti, valutano l'oper...

CHF 32.50

Angriff der Algorithmen

O'Neil, Cathy / Petersen, Karsten
Angriff der Algorithmen
Algorithmen nehmen Einfluss auf unser Leben: Von ihnen hängt es ab, ob man etwa einen Kredit für sein Haus erhält und wie viel man für die Krankenversicherung bezahlt. Cathy O'Neil, ehemalige Hedgefonds-Managerin und heute Big-Data-Whistleblowerin, erklärt, wie Algorithmen in der Theorie objektive Entscheidungen ermöglichen, im wirklichen Leben aber mächtigen Interessen folgen. Algorithmen nehmen Einfluss auf die Politik, gefährden freie Wahle...

CHF 33.50

Weapons of Math Destruction

O'Neil, Cathy
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people's purchases and clicks. O'Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of Doing Data Sc...

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Weapons of Math Destruction

O'Neil, Cathy
Weapons of Math Destruction
Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times BestsellerA former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, t...

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Doing Data Science

O'Neil, Cathy / Schutt, Rachel
Doing Data Science
Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that’s so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University’s Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.In many of these chapter-long lectures, data scientists from companies such...

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