Cathy O’Neil believes there is a dark side to numbers. A mathematician by training, she earned her doctorate at Harvard and went on to become a tenure-track professor at Barnard College. In 2007, ...

Brian Sommer kicks off the new year with a positive book review that seeks to expand our understanding of the dangers behind some algorithms. Cathy O’Neil’s book, Weapons of Math Destruction, makes ...

If someone made me commissioner of education for a day, I would make everyone study statistics. Especially journalists, whose job it is to explain to the general population what risk factors mean and ...

O'Neil's book is a primer on the ethical risks of Big Data and an algorithmically dependent world. It describes algorithms behaving badly, and advocates for society to do better You can save this ...

From classic 350-year-old problems to more modern mysteries such as algorithms, AI and why buses come in threes, these books do the sums and show their workings The sheer number of books about numbers ...

How much math knowledge do you need for machine learning and deep learning? Some people say not much. Others say a lot. Both are correct, depending on what you want to achieve. There are plenty of ...