Description: How Data Happened : A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, Hardcover by Wiggins, Chris; Jones, Matthew L., ISBN 1324006730, ISBN-13 9781324006732, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 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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Book Title: How Data Happened : A History from the Age of Reason to the Age o
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: How Data Happened : a History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Probability & Statistics / General, Data Processing, History
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.3 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Matthew L. Jones, Chris Wiggins
Subject Area: Mathematics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Science
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
