Title: Outnumbered
Description: Algorithms are running our society, and we don't 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?
Subjects: Algorithms, Big data, Mathematics, popular works, Internet, Mathematical models, Social aspects, Internet marketing, Internet advertising, Social media, Fake news, Human behavior, Social indicators, Information society, Internet--mathematical models--social aspects, Internet marketing--mathematical models--social aspects, Internet advertising--mathematical models--social aspects, Social media--mathematical models--social aspects, Fake news--mathematical models--social aspects, Mathematical models--social aspects, Human behavior--mathematical models, Algorithms--social aspects, Social indicators--mathematical models, Big data--social aspects, Hm846 .s84 2018, 303.4834, Social media and society, Applied mathematics