Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control...
Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control...
Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter.
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Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2018/4273
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
part 1. Analysing us: Finding Banksy ; Make some noise ; The principal components of friendship ; One hundred dimensions of you ; Cambridge hyperbolytica ; Impossibly unbiased ; The data alchemists -- part 2. Influencing us: Nate Silver vs the rest of us ; We "also liked" the internet ; The populari...
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Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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: Are Google algorithms racist and sexist? ; Why do election predictions fall so drastically? ; What does the future hold as we relin...
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Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter.
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Author / Creator
Notes
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"Featuring Cambridge Analytica"--On cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2018
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Call Numbers
G 2018/4273
Record Identifier
74VKVAbPGyp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAbPGyp3
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ISBN
147294741X hardback
9781472947437 paperback
1472947436 paperback
9781472947413 hardback
DDC
303.4834
MMS ID
991024177013302626
