in nothing dies, they weigh in on the vietnam war and kathy o'neill's weapons of mass destruction's argues that big data and computer models can be used to discriminate against people. our look at this year's nonfiction finalist for the national book award continues with andre and a look at the enslavement of native americans in the other slavery. american history professor documents the influence of the haitian revolution on abolition in the slaves cause. finally, heather and thompson reports on the 1971 uprising at new york's attica correctional facility in blood in the water. watch the announcement of the national book awards live on c-span2 on november 16. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> you are watching the tv on c-span2. its television for serious readers. here's our problem primetime lineup for sunday night. starting shortly you will hear from cnbc and his coworker who discuss similarities

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nothing ever dies, being on when lays on on the can the vietnam war and kathy o'neill's weapons of mass destruction argues that big data and computer models can be used to discriminate against people. i look at these visitors finalists for the national book award continues with andres resendez and a look at the enslavement of native americans in the other slavery. american history professor diminishes sent documents the influence of the haitian revolution on abolition in the slaves cost. finally heather and thompson reports on 19th-century uprising at new york's correctional facility in blood in the water. watch the announcement of the national book awards live on c-span two on november 16. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv, you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> it's worth considering that as things stand right now on the prevailing relationship between state and federal government, federal funding provides one to five years depending on the program and federal funding is by no means guaranteed to cover 100 percent of the actual cost much le

that's what kathy o'neill says in her new book. called weapons of math destruction.ow big data increases inability and threatens democracy. thank you for being here today. >> my pleasure. we do look at big data as being all knowing, it's almost like the oz character from the wizard of oz. what made you think about what if the data is wrong. garbage in and garbage out. >> i started my life as a mathematician. went into finance. so i got to see sort of firsthand how mathematics can be actually a shield of basically corrupt practices. i would the example i would give is like the triple a ratings on mortgages. that wasn't right, but it was trusted because it was mathematical. people trusted math matt i think so. seen this too where noble prize winners have great mathematics set up to explain things. so complicated nobody understood. >> people are afraid to ask. they feel they're not experts and don't have the right to ask. that fear is being used good sense people in the world of big data. >> what were examples you found. >> the one that hit me over the top of the head.

in nothing ever dies, weighs in on the vietnam war and kathy o'neil weapons of mass destruction argueshat big data and computer models can be used to discriminate against people. our look at this year's nonfiction finalists for the book award continues with andre and look at native american in other slavery. documents the influence of the haitian revolution on abolition in the slave's cause and finally heather anne thompson, 1971 uprising at correctional facility in blood in the water. watch the announcement to have national book awards live on c-span2 on november 16th. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on our website booktv.org. >> here is a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals in october. the southern festival of book will be held in nashville, tennessee, that same weekend it's the boston book festival held in the city's square. then it's the wisconsin book festival, that takes place at downtown madison public library in october 22nd. october 29th, the louisiana book festival held in baton rouge in state capital and othe