Book Review — The Traps of Big Data Revealed in “Weapons of Math Destruction” by Cathy O’Neil — The Scholarly Kitchen

The new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” calls out many worrying trends in the application of big data, with particularly salient entries on higher education rankings, for-profit universities, the justice system, insurance, and employment.

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