Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O’Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people’s purchases and clicks. O’Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of Doing Data Science. She is currently a columnist for Bloomberg View.
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Quotes
“techno utopia is this idea that the machine-learning tools, the algorithms, the things that help Google, like, have cars that drive themselves, that these tools are somehow making things objective and fair when, in fact, we really have no idea what's happening to most algorithms under the hood.”
'Weapons of Mass Destruction' Outlines Dangers of Relying On Data Analytics, 201
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Books by Cathy O'Neil in order
Books by Cathy O'Neil in the order they were published, from On Being a Data Skeptic (2013) to Shame Machine (2022).
