How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- Length: 384 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- ISBN-10: 1324006730
- ISBN-13: 9781324006732
- Sales Rank: #33884 (See Top 100 Books)
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.
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 census enshrined in the US Constitution to 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 L. 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.
Cover Title Contents Prologue Part I Chapter 1: The Stakes Chapter 2: Social Physics and l’homme moyen Chapter 3: The Statistics of the Deviant Chapter 4: Data, Intelligence, and Policy Chapter 5: Data’s Mathematical Baptism Part Two: Infodemic: How the misinformation virus spreads Chapter 6: Data at War Chapter 7: Intelligence without Data Chapter 8: Volume, Variety, and Velocity Chapter 9 Machines, Learning Chapter 10: The Science of Data Part Three: A psychological vaccine against misinformation Chapter 11: The Battle for Data Ethics Chapter 12: Persuasion, Ads, and Venture Capital Chapter 13: Solutions beyond Solutionism Acknowledgements Notes Index Copyright
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