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How Data Happened - A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (Hardcover)
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How Data Happened - A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (Hardcover)
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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 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 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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