Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

by Sarah Williams

Book Overview

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262545314
• ISBN13: 9780262545310
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 9.9"