Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Writer

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a writer.

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Profession: Writer

About Sara Wachter-Boettcher

[Wikidata] non-fiction author... | [Wikipedia] Sara Wachter-Boettcher is an author, consultant and speaker. She is the author of Technically Wrong and Content Everywhere and the co-author, with Eric Meyer, of Design for Real Life. Her book Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech was recommended by Wired

Quotes by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their…

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Mathematics

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“Cathy O’Neil claims that this reliance on historical data is a fundamental problem with many algorithmic systems: “Big data processes codify the…

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History

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“when designers use clean aesthetics to cover over a complex reality—to take something human, nuanced, and rife with potential for bias, and…

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Beauty

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“The good news is there’s actually no magic to tech. As opaque as it might seem from the outside, it’s just a…

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Good news

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“Dash concludes that, ultimately, the tech industry doesn’t really exist. It’s just in these organizations’ best interests to be seen as “tech.”

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Technology

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“The reality is a lot more mundane: design and programming are just professions—sets of skills and practices, just like any other field.…

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Programming

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“Study after study shows that diverse teams perform better. In a 2014 report for Scientific American, Columbia professor Katherine W. Phillips examined…

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Education

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