Cathy O’Neil,a data scientist and the author of the blog Mathbabe.org, joins us to discuss her fresh book, or Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. She reveals the data models that control our society and individual lives. These models include how we score teachers and students,sort résumés, grant loans, or evaluate workers,target voters and monitor our health. She calls for us to be more aware of how these models can be opaque, unregulated or even improper.
Source: thetakeaway.org