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A review by zenrobot
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
4.0
Highly recommended
This book was a hard read, but in a good way. It challenged me to wrap my brain around fields that I don’t know much about (finance specifically), but the author did her best to guide me through it. It was incredibly enlightening to the reason why so many things are the way they are. We seem to accept that the cost of college just keeps going up, and that is just the way it is. As it turns out, a poorly designed algorithm (Weapon of Math Destructions) could be to blame. She dives into the effects of data science on just about every aspect of our lives, and explains what we can do about it. It was a gut punch for sure, but ended with some hope.
This book was a hard read, but in a good way. It challenged me to wrap my brain around fields that I don’t know much about (finance specifically), but the author did her best to guide me through it. It was incredibly enlightening to the reason why so many things are the way they are. We seem to accept that the cost of college just keeps going up, and that is just the way it is. As it turns out, a poorly designed algorithm (Weapon of Math Destructions) could be to blame. She dives into the effects of data science on just about every aspect of our lives, and explains what we can do about it. It was a gut punch for sure, but ended with some hope.