Title Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles--the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter.

Publication Info.	London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
	©2018

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Description	272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note	"Featuring Cambridge Analytica"--On cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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 fail so drastically? ; 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, along with a healthy dose of mathematical self-experiment, Outnumbered will explain how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about."--from book cover
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 popularity contest ; Bubbling up ; Football matters ; Who reads fake news? -- part 3. Becoming us: Learning to be sexist ; The only thought between the decimal ; Kick your ass at "Space invaders" -- The bacterial brain -- Back to reality.
Subject	Internet -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Internet marketing -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Internet advertising -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Social media -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Fake news -- Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
	Human behavior -- Mathematical models.
	Algorithms -- Social aspects.
	Social indicators -- Mathematical models.
	Big data -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Nonfiction.
ISBN	9781472947437 (TPB)
	1472947436 (TPB)
	9781472947413 (HB)
	147294741X (HB)

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