Ergebnis für "Big Data How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives" in Geschichte & Kultur

Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever "speak for themselves."

Demystifizieren wir zusammen die Welt der großen Daten! Fast jeder nutzt heute Smartphones und Messenger und damit Big Data! Aber weißt du auch, wie im Hintergrund all diese Daten konkret generiert, gesammelt und ausgewertet werden? Praktische Tipps zum Thema Datenschutz, Smartphones und anonymes Surfen. Mache dich mit diesem Hörbuch zu einem wahren Datenschutzexperten!

From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to 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 to the development of Google search.

Dark Data explores the many ways in which we can be blind to missing data and how that can lead us to conclusions and actions that are mistaken, dangerous, or even disastrous. Examining a wealth of real-life examples, from the Challenger shuttle explosion to complex financial frauds, Hand gives us a practical taxonomy of the types of dark data that exist and the situations in which they can arise, so that we can learn to recognize and control for them.