Data and the Task of the Humanities.

The article focuses on understanding the ethical and even metaphysical underpinnings of data and its uses. It mentions that results of humanistic inquiry on this front have been thin, wherein algorithms predict and influence our behaviors by means of indexes wrung from data. It also mentions that pr...

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Publicado en:Hedgehog Review Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 86 - 96
Autor principal: Weatherby, Leif
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Publicado: Hedgehog Review Summer2020
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