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Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Outnumbered

By David Sumpter

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About the book

'Fascinating' Financial TimesAlgorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.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 and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits. But how reliable is this data? Wi...Show more

Applied mathematics

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ISBN

9781472947413

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Outnumbered

Format

Hardcover

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