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Outnumbered: Influencing us. Nate Silver vs the rest of us ; We "also liked" the internet ; The popularity contest ; Bubbling up ; Football matters ; Who reads fake news? by David J. T. Sumpter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don't even realize how our data has been used against us. David Sumpter investigates whether mathematics is crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about. 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, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms. Are we giving this up too easily? Without understanding what mathematics can and can't do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives. In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyze us, influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions Who are Cambridge Analytica, and what ar

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Author

David J. T. Sumpter

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Sigma

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472961945

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Sociology, Social_sciences

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24