Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles - the algorithms that control our lives
Sumpter, David2018
Book
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, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily? The media report daily on some new way our privacy is being violated, but without understanding what mathematics can and can't do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives. 'Outnumbered' is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes.
Main title:
Author:
Sumpter, David, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Collation:
272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472947413 (hbk)
Dewey class:
303.483510
Local class:
510
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2647544