June 2021

Broussard is an Assistant Professor at New York University as well as a software developer and data journalist.She opens up the inner world of computer programming, highlighting 'technochauvanism' - the belief that technology is always right and is always the best solution. The book is brimming with examples both from her own experiences as well as from her own imagination, including an exercise of using machine learning to predict survivors on the Titanic. Making what can often be an impenetrable topic so accessible and engaging, Broussard opens this important subject up to all of us. The book is both educational and entertaining – surely the perfect combination!

“Turning real life into math is a marvellous magic trick, but too often the inconveniently human part of the equation gets pushed to the side. Humans are not now, nor have they ever been, inconvenient. Humans are the point. Humans are the beings all this technology is supposed to serve. And not just a small subset of humans either – we should all be included in, and benefit from, the development and application of technology.”