/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Weapons%20of%20Math%20Destruction/rss en /channels/news/new-book-reveals-hidden-biases-can-creep-data-science-models-262549 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yesterday (September 6, 2016) saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive title <em>Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy</em>. O'Neil holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in Math and was a tenure-track math professor until 2007, when she quit academia to join Wall Street. That fledging second career came to an end just a year later with the Financial Crisis, after which O'Neil again changed careers and became a data scientist.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">7 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 121047 at /channels