“We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.” WorldMadeBigsMightHugeLessonsHappeningsCrisisFinancialI RealizedScalesFinanceDataExplosionsFinancial Crisis Author:Cathy O'Neil
“There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."” MomentsBigsMightAwfulDataThat Moment Author:Cathy O'Neil
“By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsDifferentSometimesMomentsBigsSufferingSidesWhiteSecretSuccessfulClearHappenedEconomicColorBenefitsEducatedDataExplanationScoreConstructionSuccessful PeopleSpectrumDifferent TimesWell Educated Author:Cathy O'Neil
“Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.” PersonsDoeIdeasBigsGivenNo IdeaGoogle Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.” ThinkingBigsCompanyNewsDataGood NewsThink Big Author:Cathy O'Neil
