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title: "ECO 397 Book Review"
author: "Clayton Engelby"
date: "2020-12-09T05:28:09Z"
tags: [Machine Learning, Market, Models]
link: "https://bookdown.org/engelbyclayton/eco_397_weapons_of_math_destruction_review/"
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ECO 397 Book Review [...] Cathy O’Neill’s book “Weapons of Math Destruction” is an analysis of big data and its use of machine learning programs that aim to maximize market efficiency. In the process of doing so, she coins the initialism WMDs as logical flaws in the models that skew results in one way or another. Her argument focuses on the fact that more often than not, these failures result in the worsening of ongoing structural violence and only add fuel to the fire for recidivism rates, bankruptcies, mortgage defaults, college dropouts, and health-related deaths. While there is absolutely  ...
