/channels/taxonomy/term/2079/all en /channels/news/new-book-reveals-hidden-biases-can-creep-data-science-models-262549 <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> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 121047 at /channels