Outnumbered
Bloomsbury Sigma (Verlag)
978-1-4729-4741-3 (ISBN)
Algorithms 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 explains 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.
David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, but growing up in Scotland, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held a Royal Society Fellowship at Oxford before heading to Sweden. His scientific research covers everything from the inner workings of fish schools and ant colonies, analysis of the passing networks of football teams, and segregation in society to machine learning and artificial intelligence. David has written for The Economist, The Telegraph, Current Biology, Mathematics Today and FourFourTwo magazine, amongst others. He has been awarded the IMA’s Catherine Richards prize for communicating mathematics to a wider audience. David’s first book was Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game.
PART 1: ANALYSING US
Chapter 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 403 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4729-4741-X / 147294741X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-4741-3 / 9781472947413 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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