Hardcover, 272 pages
English language
Published Feb. 17, 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Outnumbered
From Facebook and Google to fake news and filter bubbles - the algorithms that control our lives
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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?