ビッグデータを盲信する時代に終止符を

ProPublica has collected 32 news articles from the past couple years, all spotlighting different ways that algorithms and data systems have reinforced discrimination, from Amazon and Facebook algorithms to car insurance premiums. The featured story focuses on discrimination within future criminal software.

Although this book doesn’t focus on the big data side of injustice, it lays a historical foundation for the structural, racial injustices that have only been magnified by the introduction of algorithms and data systems.

Rothstein focuses on “redlining” and how present-day racial segregation patterns flow from de jure discrimination in housing.

Blackmon unpacks America’s seldom-recognized racist history between the Civil War and WWII.

Admati and Hellwig pry open the claims used by bankers, politicians, and regulators to rationalize the lack of reform in the banking system.

Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court cases, Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society’s weakest members.

Ellenberg's is a friendly introduction to the power of mathematical thinking.

Mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used — and disastrously misused — as evidence.