How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones

Book Overview

From facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324074582
• ISBN13: 9781324074588
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"