Carina C. Zona helps us understand algorithms, both what they are and how they are used. She walks us through fascinating examples of how they've been used in technology over the years, exploring the benefits and unintended consequences they've had along the way, and how we as developers can boost those benefits and decrease those unintended consequences.

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• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• DevNews (sponsor)
• New Relic (sponsor)
• Retool (sponsor)
• Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor)
• Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
• Schemas for the Real World
• Cracking the Coding Interview (book)
• How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
• Google's Autotagging Feature
• Flickr's Autotagging Feature
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Carina C. Zona

Carina C. Zona is a developer, advocate, and certified sex educator. She spends a lot of time thinking about the unexpected cultural effects of our decisions as programmers. Carina is the founder of CallbackWomen and co-organizer of the We So Crafty community of techies who craft.