How data happened : a history from the age of reason to the age of algorithms
Wiggins, Chris
How data happened : a history from the age of reason to the age of algorithms by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2023 - xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-351) and index.
CHAPTER 1: The stakes CHAPTER 2: Social physics and l'homme moyen CHAPTER 3: The statistics of the deviant CHAPTER 4: Data, intelligence, and policy CHAPTER 5: Data's mathematical baptism CHAPTER 6: Data at war CHAPTER 7: Intelligence without data CHAPTER 8: Volume, variety, and velocity CHAPTER 9: Machines, learning CHAPTER 10: The science of data CHAPTER 11: The battle for data ethics CHAPTER 12: Persuasion, ads, and venture capital CHAPTER 13: Solutions beyond solutionism.
"From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and 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"--
9781324074588
Big data -- History.
Social aspects.
Computer science -- History.
Informatique -- Histoire
Quantitative research -- History
Mathematics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.
310.9 / WIG-H
How data happened : a history from the age of reason to the age of algorithms by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2023 - xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-351) and index.
CHAPTER 1: The stakes CHAPTER 2: Social physics and l'homme moyen CHAPTER 3: The statistics of the deviant CHAPTER 4: Data, intelligence, and policy CHAPTER 5: Data's mathematical baptism CHAPTER 6: Data at war CHAPTER 7: Intelligence without data CHAPTER 8: Volume, variety, and velocity CHAPTER 9: Machines, learning CHAPTER 10: The science of data CHAPTER 11: The battle for data ethics CHAPTER 12: Persuasion, ads, and venture capital CHAPTER 13: Solutions beyond solutionism.
"From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and 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"--
9781324074588
Big data -- History.
Social aspects.
Computer science -- History.
Informatique -- Histoire
Quantitative research -- History
Mathematics
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.
310.9 / WIG-H