People can wield mathematics to unfairly distribute power. But Cho takes mathematics back. With algorithms, she gives the power back to the people.

In your book, you describe some relatively well-known examples of potentially harmful algorithms, such as value-added models that grade public schoolteachers based on student test scores.

Our lives are increasingly influenced by mathematical models and algorithms that are hard to challenge and often discriminatory. In this book, former Wall Street 'quant' Cathy O'Neil argues ...

Algorithm is gonna get you: Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction explores how we're trapped by Big Data O'Neil's book is a primer on the ethical risks of Big Data and an algorithmically ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

The University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics and UW-iSchool partnered with the University Lectures Committee to host mathematician Cathy O’Neil Tuesday evening at the Fluno Center. O’Neil is ...