2013–2026
1,227 posts
2026 49
October 2026
- AI Skeptics: The Consensual Non-Consent Sex Cult Episode (with Sherry Wong and Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Biden/Trump/Bolsonaro AI Policy Episode (with Clara Langevin)
- Essay: Frontier AI Cannot Be Audited
- AI Skeptics: AI Trifecta: Hacks, Financing, and Lobbying
- Oh look, banks are being hacked by AI
- AI Skeptics: How Schools Procure AI Tools (with J.B. Branch)
September 2026
- AI Skeptics: Government AI Procurement is a Problem (with Jae Kim and Aniket Kesari)
- AI Skeptics: AI Purity Culture in NYC Schools (with Kiri Soares and David Adams)
- AI Kill Switches Won’t Be Enough
- Michael Harris’s Boston Review essay on AI and math is great!
- Essay: AI Threatens the Internet, Not Humanity
- Special AI Skeptics Episode: AI and the End of the World (or the End of the Internet)
- AI Skeptics: Big Tech in Public Schools (with Natasha Singer)
- AI Skeptics: Should I Sell My House? (with Jeff Childers)
- AI Skeptics: AI Narratives (with Sherry Wong)
August 2026
- AI Skeptics: From Mathematics to AI Safety (with Jacob Tsimerman)
- AI Skeptics: Liberal Democracy in the AI Era (with Daron Acemoglu)
- AI Skeptics: The Connecticut AI Law (with James Maroney)
- AI Skeptics: Artists are Canaries in the AI Coalmine (with Becky Jaffe)
July 2026
- AI Skeptics (Casino Journalism) and SuperDataScience
- AI Skeptics: What Young People Think About AI (With Carly Adams)
- AI Skeptics: Hyping AI (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: Erdos’s Conjecture Was Just the Beginning (with Daniel Litt)
- AI Skeptics: is AI ruining “pro se”? (with Sam Tyner-Monroe)
June 2026
- AI Skeptics: AI and Public Defenders (with D’Adre Cunningham and Sarah Hudson)
- AI Skeptics: Pre AI IPO (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Audit Revolution is Nigh (with Karrie Karaholios)
May 2026
- AI Skeptics: How Utah is Taking AI Seriously (with Zach Boyd)
- AI Skeptics: After the AI Crash (with Asad Ramzanali)
- AI Skeptics: We Are The Egg (with Laura MacCleery)
- AI Skeptics: Aint Nobody Here ‘Cept Us Chickens (with Tom Adams)
April 2026
- AI Skeptics: The Rich People Episode (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Psychedelic Computer Brain (With Andy Smart)
- AI Skeptics: The early internet (with Betty O’Neil)
- AI Skeptics: Section 230 (With Nancy Costello)
- AI Skeptics: Social Media is the New Tobacco (with Tom Adams)
March 2026
- AI Skeptics: Should Judges Use AI? (with Shlomo Klapper)
- AI Skeptics: The Kidd Lab Episode (with Celeste Kidd)
- AI Skeptics: We’re Not Moving to Mars (With Adam Becker)
- AI Skeptics: AI in Philanthropy (with Katy Knight and Sherry Wong)
February 2026
- AI Skeptics: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI (with John Warner)
- AI Skeptics: Sex Ed for Ed Tech (with Kiri Soares)
- AI Skeptics: The Future of Work (With Kevin Frazier)
- AI Skeptics Podcast: The AI Bubble Episode (with Tom Adams)
January 2026
2025 9
September 2025
July 2025
June 2025
May 2025
- LLM’s in the VA: it just got dangerous
- Um… how about we don’t cede control to AI?
- South Park is genius
April 2025
2024 9
August 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism
- Google’s mistake with Gemini
- The AI Fairness Hype is Real
February 2024
2023 4
January 2023
2022 2
October 2022
March 2022
2021 4
June 2021
May 2021
2020 36
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
- School reopening is a disaster. This is deliberate.
- I’m taking Trump seriously
- I was wrong about Florida COVID deaths. But not as wrong as I wish I were.
- Let’s crowdsource CO2 levels
July 2020
- The political uprising we should have expected
- IB’s grading algorithm is a huge mess
- Florida’s death count is gonna hit 600 soon, I predict
- Quantifying Dread
June 2020
- Defunding the Police Will Be Easy (we’ve already done the data work)
- Congress Needs to Act On Facial Recognition
- Let’s Fill in Dangerous Blindspots in Police Data
- Sheryl, honey, if this is you leaning in, please lean out
- Mass Incarceration Causes Pandemics
May 2020
- Students are in a game of chicken with colleges.
- Forget the models, follow the R(t)
- Covid-19 models: none are perfect, some are downright dumb
- Bloomberg column: The FEMA model is a WMD
- Robot Overlords and a Eulogy to the Subway
April 2020
- Two new Bloomberg Posts!!
- New Bloomberg Column: Let’s not make things worse for older people
- New Bloomberg Column: This is Not The Flattened Curve We Were Promised
- New Bloomberg Column: COVID-19 tracking will not work
- New Bloomberg column: 10 Reasons to Doubt the Covid-19 Data
- Diabetics potentially have a LOT to lose by using hydroxychloroquine
- Making facemasks: a step-by-step guide
March 2020
- Comments on COVID-19
- A better proxy than confirmed cases for the US is hospital beds
- Wash your hands *and* your phone
January 2020
2019 9
August 2019
June 2019
- New Bloomberg Opinion column: China’s AI shows us the future of health insurance
- Shame Versus the Free Market
- Shame is Power
- Group Shame
February 2019
January 2019
2018 49
November 2018
- Our Dystopian Future and the Next Cold War
- Karaoke is even better in French
- Guest post: How I Voted and Why
- Mathbabe’s Guide to Overtravel
October 2018
- The Truth About Algorithms
- The Era of Plausible Deniability in Big Data Continues
- TomTown Ramblers performing next Saturday, October 13th at The Rockwood!
- Guest post: China’s Social Credit System
September 2018
- New Politics and Philosophy Podcast: The Badlands
- Maybe This Financial System Can’t Be Fixed
- Tech Companies Need To Admit They Have A Problem
August 2018
- Reputation Scores and Free Tampons
- Zuckerberg Is Totally Out Of His Depth
- How America Can Stop Being the Wild West of Data
July 2018
- Financial Times op-ed
- Nerd childhood piece: how I decided to become a mathematician
- Science For The People back in action!
June 2018
- The Failure of Ed Reform
- Everyone Should Hate Google Glasses
- College Admissions Will Never Be Fair
- Facebook should be testing election results
- Guest post: Teaching programming with zines
May 2018
- ORCAA featured in Fast Company!
- Let’s Not Forget How Wrong Our Crime Data Are
- ORCAA featured in MIT Technology Review
- ORCAA was written up in Wired!
- Speaker Series: Mathematics and Democracy
- On NPR
April 2018
- A Summer Calculus Camp called PZ Math
- Congress is Missing the Point on Facebook
- Thoughts on a Hippocratic Oath for data science
- I don’t care about self-driving car ethics
March 2018
- Teaching Computers to be Fair
- Boring Exercise Update (please don’t read)
- The Bail System Sucks. Algorithms Might Not Help.
- Ernie Davis: The Palantir of New Orleans
February 2018
- A natural experiment for Facebook
- Short rant about diets
- I was feeling dark when I wrote this
- My favorite kind of Amazon Q&A
- Workers Should Have Their Fingers Crossed for a Market Downturn
- Guest post: What We Should Worry About When We Worry About Virtual Reality
January 2018
2017 88
December 2017
- Bloomberg View piece on #MeToo data & I quit Twitter
- At Tufts on Thursday, in D.C. on Friday
- Women’s March 2018
November 2017
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the Occupy Book Club
- Bloomberg View: Ray Dalio and Facebook
- Op-ed in the NY Times
October 2017
September 2017
- Gaydar algorithms and ethics
- Upcoming events (and recent podcasts)!
- Facebook and Google, Show Us Your Ad Data
- The Gallons of Milk Theory of Weight Loss
- We’re Losing the War on Opioids
August 2017
- Learning to eat again
- Look Who’s Fighting Our Algorithmic Overlords
- Disarm White Supremacy
- My TED talk is live!
- Biking and swimming and throwing away my scale
- Women in Tech
- Math: Still Not Everywhere
- Trump and Statistics Don’t Mix
- Doing great!
- Big Data Is Coming to Take Your Health Insurance
July 2017
June 2017
- Going to London!
- Why am I getting bariatric surgery?
- Bariatric Surgery Update
- Random thoughts on hotels
- Dublin Part 2
- In Dublin with Wolfie!
- Guest post: Quatama Elementary
- What’s Wrong With Letting Tech Run Our Schools
- The Unhelpful Myth of Genius
- Stacks Project Hoodies For Sale!
- Don’t Expect Tech to Care About Your Problems
May 2017
- What If Robots Did the Hiring at Fox News?
- Period Equity (tampon) Hat!
- Eugene Stern: How Value Added Models are Like Turds
- Trump’s Path-Independent Theory of Mind
- Unreliable Data Can Threaten Democracy
- 100 Day Blanket
- The VAM Might Finally be Dead
- I’d Rather Not Merge With Robots, Thank You
- Anonymous Guest Post: Mentorship Problems for Women in Tech
- Simpson’s Paradox Comes to Facebook
- Justice Needs Nerds
- How the Robot Apocalypse Will Go Down
April 2017
- United Airlines Exposes Our Twisted Idea of Dignity
- Does Capitalism shrink inequality?
- President Bannon and Big Data Juries #Resist
- March for Science Knitwear #Resist
March 2017
- Guest post: Make Your Browsing Noiszy
- TomTown Ramblers playing this Sunday!
- How to Manage Our Algorithmic Overlords
- Guest Post: In Praise of Globes
- Guest post: the age of algorithms
- Dystopian Bloomberg Posts: Price Discrimination and Snap
- We don’t know why we’re all so fat
- How to think statistically (about dieting)
- The nature of choice in diets
- Updates: TED and bariatric surgery
- How Data Can Make Immigrants Look Like Criminals
- Bigger Data Isn’t Always Better Data
February 2017
- Insurance and Big Data Are Incompatible
- New links!
- Meet Facebook, Your New Financial Regulator
- Age of Algorithms: Data, Democracy and the News Event at NYU Journalism 2/15
- Dear President Bannon…. #PostcardsToBannon
- Donald Trump is the Singularity
- Becky Jaffe: Resources to #Resist
- Cambridge Analytica
January 2017
- Get a New York ID Card #Resist
- Immigrant protests #JFKTerminal4 and 2pm at Battery Park today
- Bloomberg post: When Algorithms Come for Our Children
- Bloomberg View!
- Pussyhats and the activist knitter
- This might be interesting
- Two out of three “fairness” criteria can be satisfied
- Two clarifications
- Algorithmic collusion and price-fixing
- How to fix recidivism risk models
- Recidivism risk algorithms are inherently discriminatory
- 2017 Resolutions: switch this shit up
2016 152
December 2016
- Creepy Tech That Will Turbocharge Fake News
- Section 230 isn’t up to the task
- How do you quantify morality?
- Facebook, the FBI, D&S, and Quartz
- Wednesday Morning Soundtrack
- I quit Facebook and my life is better now
- In the New York Review of Books!
- Using Data Science to do Good: A Conversation
November 2016
- Box Cutter Stats
- Five Stages of Trump-related Grief
- In NYTimes’ Room for Debate
- Miami Book Festival
- Facebook should hire me to audit their algorithm
- Guest post: we should not get out-imagined again
- WMD press from Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands
- Guest post: the foreclosure vote
- The Models Were Telling Us Trump Could Win
- It’s Time to Smell the Shit
- We are all activists now
- Aise’s Voting Guide
- Fake News, False Information, and Stupid Polls
- SLA-NY PrivCo Spotlight Award!
- A good use of big data: to help struggling students
October 2016
- Pseudoscience at Gate B6
- What you tweet could cost you
- At the Wisconsin Book Festival!
- Facebook’s Child Workforce
- Guest post: An IT insider’s mistake
- New America event next Monday
- Three upcoming NY events, starting tonight at Thoughtworks
- Facial Recognition is getting really accurate, and we have not prepared
- A Plethora Of Podcasts
- New York Times Book Review and more!
- Harvard Bookstore Tonight & In New Yorker
September 2016
- The “One of Many” Fallacy
- Stuff I’ve been reading this week
- In London next week
- WMD articles and interviews
- When statisticians ignore statistics
- Let’s hear it for Penn Station bathrooms!
- National Book Awards Longlist Finalist!
- More creepy models
- Book talk at Occupy today!
- Slate Money discusses WMD
- Time to unionize customer-facing bankers
- Brian Lehrer and Barnes & Noble today!
- Reviews for Weapons of Math Destruction
- Book Release! and more
- Tech industry self-regulates AI ethics in secret meetings
- Citi Bike comes to Columbia
- Excerpt of my book in the Guardian!
August 2016
- In Time Magazine!
- BISG Methodology
- Book Tour Events!
- Chicago’s “Heat List” predicts arrests, doesn’t protect people or deter crime
- What is alpha?
- The truth about clean swimming pools
- Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm
- Holy crap – an actual book!
- Who Counts as a Futurist? Whose Future Counts?
- The Absurd Moral Authority of Futurism
- Expand Social Security, get rid of 401Ks
- Stuff’s going on! Some of it’s progress!
July 2016
- Reform the CFAA
- Horrifying New Credit Scoring in China
- Auditing Algorithms
- Race and Police Shootings: Why Data Sampling Matters
- Review: The Wellness Syndrome
- End Broken Windows Policing
- When is AI appropriate?
June 2016
- The arXiv should be supported by the NSF
- WMD Audiobook!
- On Being Lane Bryant Fat
- Why did the Brexit polls get it so wrong?
- OIG Report: Broken Windows doesn’t work
- Gerrymandering algorithms
- Adding another layer of cynicism to the “smart” city revolution
- The US DOE’s sunk costs into for-profit colleges
- Thoughts on the future of math education
- Delete your LinkedIn account
- Norman Seabrook is the absolute worst
- Recent talks, useless synopses
- In Paris
- Three Ideas for defusing Weapons of Math Destruction
- Sketchy genetic algorithms are the worst
- Sentencing more biased by race than by class
May 2016
- Teacher growth score “capricious” and “arbitrary”, judge rules
- 3 Terrible Big Data Ideas
- ProPublica report: recidivism risk models are racist
- Stuff I’m reading this morning
- What is education for?
- White House report on big data and civil rights
- Google to stop showing Payday ads
- Algorithms are as biased as human curators
- A Call For Riddles
- Math isn’t under attack
- Forced Arbitration and the CFPB
- Globalization for the 99%
- Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis
- Fiscal Waterboarding & Ponzi Austerity
April 2016
- Book Tour
- Talking to Yanis Varoufakis on Slate Money this week
- Academic Payday Lending Lobbyists
- Tom Slee’s What’s Yours is Mine
- Can we use data analysis to make policing less racist?
- Chicago Police Department Task Force Report
- WMD galleys!
- I’ll stop calling algorithms racist when you stop anthropomorphizing AI
- There are lots of ways to break up the big banks
- Guest post: Useful Math Tools
- Four things I wanted to tell you this morning
March 2016
- Apple vs. FBI: nobody won
- Grit metrics for kids: let’s not
- Flint Water Advisory Task Force Report
- Wolfie O’Neil: A Story Of A Broken Leg
- Resist the evil of the selfie password
- Not your namby-pamby teenage parenting advice column
- Tom Adams: The NYC real estate bubble is about to pop
- Let’s Talk About Free Trade
- I am no longer accommodating men
- Speaking at QCon London on auditing algorithms
- Holy shit I look amazing holding tampons
- Hey I’m a lead plaintiff on the NYS tampon tax case
- We’re having the wrong conversation about Apple and the FBI
February 2016
- The unreasonable delightfulness of Mathematics, Substance and Surmise
- Neoliberalism is being challenged
- President Archie Bunker
- Book cover, bluegrass, and bagels
- I’m a Morn Watcher
- Guest post: Math is the Great Equalizer
- Guest post: A Math Circle that’s Breaking the Mold
- The Mount St. Mary’s story is just so terrible
- How do we make math enrichment less elitist?
- Time for One More
- Piece in Slate about ethical data science
- The one great thing about unfair algorithms
- Speaking at the Data Privacy Lab
- Flint residents don’t need water bottles, they need democracy
- Raising kids the right way
January 2016
- At CPDP, thinking about privacy
- The continued surveillance of poor black kids
- Race and the race to the top
- Todd Schneider’s “medium data”
- I don’t want more women at Davos
- Crank up New York real estate taxes
- The SHSAT matching algorithm isn’t that hard
- O’Neil family anthem
- Surveillance and wifi in NYC subways
- Which Michigan cities are in receivership?
- The economics of weight loss
- Finishing up Weapons of Math Destruction
- Racial identity and video games
2015 233
December 2015
- Parenting is really a thing
- We could use some tools of social control to use on police
- Forecasting precipitation
- My favorite scams of 2015
- Star Wars Christmas Special
- Weapons of Math Destruction to be an audiobook
- Notes on the Oxford IUT workshop by Brian Conrad
- To The Point: predictive policing
- Aunt Pythia’s last column
- Piper Harron discusses her artistic and wonderful math Ph.D. thesis
- The Alt Banking group
- Housekeys
- Big data, technology, and the elderly
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- No, let’s not go easier on white collar criminals
- Uncollected Criminal Justice Data
- Big Data community, please don’t leave underrepresented students behind
November 2015
- Math and the caveman imagination
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- What are you thankful for in finance or economics?
- Do Charter Schools Cherrypick Students?
- Line Edits
- Open Data Conference this Friday
- Debiasing techniques in science
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Silicon Valley and Journalism conference at Columbia’s Tow Center
- Republicans would let car dealers continue racist practices undeterred
- Duke deans drop the ball on scientific misconduct
- Goldman Sachs explains: social impact bonds are socially bankrupt
- Fox reporter needs math help
- A couple of quick links
- The gender wage gap is not misleading
October 2015
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Slides for Stockholm
- It’s time to stop watching football
- In Praise of Cabbies
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The internet is no place for conversation
- Minority homeownership and wealth-creation
- Guest post: Dirty Rant About The Human Brain Project
- Crowdsourcing a Theranos test?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Romance and math meetings
- Microfinance is mostly a scam
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Guest Post: Housing is not a good investment
- Bethany McLean’s Shaky Ground: the strange saga of the U.S. mortgage giants
- Nerdy comments about measuring disparate impact
- Stockholm Tutorial on Data Science
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The tricky thing about disparate impact
- Strata and swag
September 2015
- Guest Post: how to be a data scientist at a non-profit
- Yarn Confessions
- Obsessed with VW
- Interrogating algorithms
- In The Crimson and Le Monde
- Pre-settlement funding companies in the lawsuit economy
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Jury duty
- Data science job blurbs
- The fight for 15
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- I’ve found the soundtrack to my angsty teenaged life
- Bloggy young nerd women
- Holy crap, you guys rock
- What can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better place?
- Big data, disparate impact, and the neoliberal mindset
- Project Occupy
- The Continuing War on Teachers
- Litigation finance: a terrible idea
August 2015
- The inevitability of sexual assault
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- A huge win for contractors and franchise workers
- Tipping, power, and the gig economy
- Links about big bad data
- Comparative advantage in international trade and in married life
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The seven work languages
- The Chef Shortage, Explained
- Aunt Pythia and Sister of My Sister’s advice
- Four Strategies to Delay Child Marriage
- Who wants to be a school teacher (or a fruit picker)?
- The Data For Good Exchange
- As a futurist, I have lots of work to do
- I am a futurist!
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Mathematrucker’s take on the current state of long-haul truck driving
- Uber drivers’ collective action problem
- Occupy Summer School is in the New Yorker!
- Should Aunt Pythia go video?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
July 2015
- The manufactured trucker shortage
- Women in Tech: pipeline versus retention
- Academic publishing versus retraction, or: how much Twitter knows about the market
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Gender and racial achievement gaps in math
- Greek debt and German banks
- The 17-armed spiral within a spiral
- Protest against gender and racial inequality tomorrow morning! #OccupySummerSchool
- Star Trek uniforms for everyone
- Occupy Summer School in the Metro!
- Puerto Rico’s debt situation
- We Should Extend Chapter 9 to Puerto Rico
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The $heriff tool: detect price discrimination while you shop
- What are prisons for?
- Leather stains on light colored hosiery
- Occupy Summer School starts today
- Aunt Pythia’s Advice
- What kind of happiness should we strive for?
- What is Sidewalks Labs’ business model?
- Advertisement or… negotiation?
June 2015
- When does an interview become free consulting?
- Data mining children’s data
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: the camgirls edition
- Autobiography In Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson
- I play chicken with men on the street
- Stuff I’m reading
- Fuck trigonometry
- Guest post: Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
- College metrics of success
- Greece should default, refuse to leave the Euro
- The definition of “opting in” has become strained
- Clearwater Festival this weekend!
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Growler Shops
- The market for your personal data is maturing
- Guest Post: What Is Happening With Tenure In Madison?
- Student loans and moral outrage
- Michelle Rhee’s legacy
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Update on insurance issues at Uber
- Uber is somewhat threatened in NYC
- If you redefine “performance,” magical things happen
May 2015
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Speaking next week at the Personal Democracy Forum
- Why not a ravelry for people who work out?
- Left Forum this weekend
- Algorithms And Accountability Of Those Who Deploy Them
- Kansas redistributes money from the poor to the banks
- Nobody can keep track of all the big bank fraud cases #TBTF #OWS
- Gender And The Harvard Math Department
- In Camden, New Jersey
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Starting work at the GovLab soon
- Jordan’s here!
- Sharing insurance costs with the sharing economy
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Nick Kristof is not Smarter than an 8th Grader
- The New York Real Estate Mafia
- Occupy Summer School #OWS
- China announces it is scoring its citizens using big data
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- In defense of dowdy
April 2015
- Looking for big data reading suggestions
- Sharing with whom?
- The Police State is already here.
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Driving While Black in the Bronx
- Four political camps in the big data world
- Standardized Testing Opt-out Rally in Brooklyn Today
- Aunt Pythia’s and Uncle Aristippus’ advice
- Putting the dick pic on the Snowden story
- Workplace Personality Tests: a Cynical View
- Fingers crossed – book coming out next May
- Open Data conference at Berkeley Center for Law & Technology this Friday
- Predatory credit score-based insurance fees
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The achievement gap: whose problem is it?
- Everyone hates college administrators
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- How many NYC are arbitrarily punished by the VAM? About 578 per year.
- The arbitrary punishment of New York teacher evaluations
March 2015
- Review: The New Prophets of Capital
- I accept mathematical bribes
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Songs about mothers
- Talking tomorrow evening at American University
- I felt warm and relaxed
- A/B testing in politics
- Guest Post: A Discussion Of PARCC Testing
- A critique of a review of a book by Bruce Schneier
- Data Justice Launches!
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Earth’s aphelion and perihelion
- Tomtown Ramblers killing it
- Illegitimate international debt
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Patent trolls
- Affordable Housing Needs a Reset #OWS
- Two articles on understanding statistical error
February 2015
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- For Profit Colleges Are The Real Villain
- Big Data Is The New Phrenology
- Student Debt Strikers Take On Corinthian College
- How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy
- Guest Post: Porn, Consent, and Obamneycare for Sex
- Guest post: Be more careful with the vagina stats in teaching
- Reforming the data-driven justice system
- AAPOR Big Data Report
- When non-mathematicians judge the math major
- Things I’m reading
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: 50 Shades edition
- Rebellious Lawyering Conference
- Guest post: a survey of mathematical podcasts
- Women and work and housekeeping
- Why not bored and brilliant kids?
- Where does all that settlement money go?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- I Love you Mathbabe, but 529 Plans are Awesome.
- S&P and the Puffery Defense
- Let’s make paying for college harder
January 2015
- Slate Money Talks Sports
- When Errorbars Hit Mainstream News
- Dartmouth Math Colloquium & All Souls Panel on Mega-Foundations
- Grexit
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Intentional discrimination versus disparate impact
- Two articles on feminism
- Peter Woit: The NSA, NIST and the AMS
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Representation of women and the genius myth
- The Black Box Society by Frank Pasquale
- Link to my JMM prezi talk
- Palantir’s leaked documents and the concept of uncertainty
- Citation as received wisdom
- Guest post by Tom Adams: Obama homeownership push or mortgage market share battle?
- Going to San Antonio for JMM
- Creepy big data health models
- Big data and class
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Male nerd privilege
2014 255
December 2014
- Vacation in Utrecht
- Mortgage tax deductions and gentrification
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Wage Gaps Don’t Magically Get Smaller Because Big Data
- A Call For Justice #OccupyCitibank
- What would a data-driven Congress look like?
- Fairness, accountability, and transparency in big data models
- Liz Warren nails it
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Join Occupy the SEC in Pushing Congress to Reject Dodd-Frank Deregulation
- Video cameras won’t solve the #EricGarner situation, but they will help
- FATML and next Saturday’s Eric Garner protest
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- White progress
- Staten Island Goddam #EricGarner
- Neil deGrasse Tyson at NJPAC
- Educational feedback loops in China and the U.S.
- The re-emergence of debtors’ prisons
November 2014
- How to ignore your family on Thanksgiving
- Is tourism in Haiti inherently exploitative?
- P-values and power in statistical tests
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Guest Post: What does it mean to “create jobs”?
- I am old in Haiti
- What the fucking shit, Barbie?
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
- What Happens as a Bubble Deflates?
- Will Demographics Solve the College Tuition Problem? (A: I Don’t Know)
- Time to Short 57th Street?
- My annoying neighbor (and the banality of political corruption)
- Alt Banking in Huffington Post #OWS
- Bitcoin provocations
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Inflation for the rich
- Nerd catcalling
- Going to Haiti next week
- “Hand To Mouth” and the rationality of the poor
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
October 2014
- Tailored political ads threaten democracy
- Core Econ: a free economics textbook
- The war against taxes (and the unmarried)
- Guest post: Clustering and predicting NYC taxi activity
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The class warfare of Halloween
- Links (with annotation)
- Guest post: The dangers of evidence-based sentencing
- Big Data’s Disparate Impact
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- De-anonymizing what used to be anonymous: NYC taxicabs
- Bad Paper by Jake Halpern
- Upcoming data journalism and data ethics conferences
- What male allies should *really* be doing
- Reverse-engineering Chinese censorship
- Workplace Personality Test for the NY Fed
- Detroit’s water problem and the Koch brothers
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Ello, Enron, and the future of data privacy
- StemFeminist
- Notices of the AMS is killing it
September 2014
- People hate me, I must be doing something right
- Chameleon models
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Women not represented in clinical trials
- The business of public education
- When your genetic information is held against you
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Climate Convergence march on Sunday
- Why the NFL conversation about Ray Rice is so important to me
- The green-eyed/ blue-eyed puzzle/ conundrum
- Christian Rudder’s Dataclysm
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- What’s next for mathbabe?
- Guest post: New Federal Banking Regulations Undermine Obama Infrastructure Stance
- Wife beating education for sports fan and everyone else
- Reverse-engineering the college admissions process
- Aunt Pythia gives it up for Polly
- Friday morning reading
- Student evaluations: very noisy data
- Guest Post: Bring Back The Slide Rule!
- Distributional Economic Health
August 2014
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: the nerdy edition
- The bad teacher conspiracy
- A decision tree for decision trees
- Aise O’Neil at Gotham Comedy Club
- The Stubborn Hope of an Urban Teacher
- Gillian Tett gets it very wrong on racial profiling
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: the sex edition
- Jeff Larson kills it at the Lede Program
- When the story IS the interaction with the public
- Nafeez Ahmed to join Alt Banking this Sunday
- Advertising vs. Privacy
- What can be achieved by Data Science?
- I love math and I hate the Fields Medal
- Love StackOverflow and MathOverflow? Now there’s StemForums!
- Illegal PayDay syndicate in New York busted
- Weapon of Math Destruction: “risk-based” sentencing models
- White people don’t talk about racism
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: delicious crepes edition
- Navigating the mindset for data journalism
- The economics of a McDonalds franchise
- You used to be a feminist before you got pregnant
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
July 2014
- Advice for anxious sleepers
- The Head First book series
- The problem with charter schools
- The app effect
- Aunt Pythia’s amazing advice
- Nerding out: RSA on an iPython Notebook
- How to think like a microeconomist
- Crime and punishment
- Everyone has a crush on me
- The platonic solids
- The future of work
- Two great articles about standardized tests
- The Platform starts today
- Surveillance in NYC
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The Lede Program students are rocking it
- Great news: for-profit college Corinthian to close
- Zephyr Teachout to visit Alt Banking this Sunday
- What constitutes evidence?
- Critical Questions for Big Data by danah boyd & Kate Crawford
June 2014
- Thanks for a great case study, Facebook!
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- We are not ready for health data mining
- Unsolicited advice about having kids
- The dark matter of big data
- You are not Google’s customer
- Guest post: What is the goal of a college calculus course?
- Clearwater Festival and Pete Seeger
- Circular arguments, eigenjesus, and climate change
- Marc Andreessen and Al3x Payne
- Correlation does not imply equality
- Why Chetty’s Value-Added Model studies leave me unconvinced
- Getting rid of teacher tenure does not solve the problem
- Review: House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
- Update on the Lede Program
- String Telephone
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Stuff I’m reading
- Organizing Walmart Workers: Summer for Respect #OWS
- Me & My Administrative Bloat
- A neat solution to the high class jerk problem
May 2014
- Aunt Pythia’s advice, hungover edition
- I am boycotting Amazon
- How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
- The Lede Program has started!
- Obama has the wrong answer to student loan crisis
- Weekly Slate Money podcast
- The business of big data audits: monetizing fairness
- The next time I’m a criminal
- Ignore data, focus on power
- How do we prevent the next Tim Geithner?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The Future of Data Journalism, I hope
- Was Jill Abramson’s firing a woman thing?
- Reading Geithner’s Stress Test
- Google-Nest.org
- Text laundering
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- On Slate Money Podcast starting Saturday
- Inside the Podesta Report: Civil Rights Principles of Big Data
- Podesta’s Big Data report to Obama: good but not great
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- No, Sandy Pentland, let’s not optimize the status quo
- Occupy May Day
April 2014
- Great news: InBloom is shutting down
- Warning: extremely nerdy content, harmful if taken seriously
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Is math an art or a science?
- I burned my eyes reading the Wall Street Journal this morning
- Interview with a middle school math teacher on the Common Core
- A simple mathematical model of congressional geriatric penis pumps
- Guest rant about rude kids
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The Lede Program has awesome faculty
- The US political system serves special interests and the rich
- How recently have you experienced democracy? #OWS
- Let’s experiment more
- People who obsessively exercise are boring
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Envy, greed, and the American Dream #OWS
- Does OpenSSL bug prove that open source code doesn’t work?
- Let’s stop talking about HFT for a little while
- An Interview And A Notebook
- Defining poverty #OWS
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- What Monsanto and college funds have in common
- Navigating sexism does not mean accepting sexism
March 2014
- Lobbyists have another reason to dominate public commenting #OWS
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Interview with a high school principal on the math Common Core
- The Lede Program: An Introduction to Data Practices
- Tia Pythia’s advice
- Billionaire money and academic freedom
- Optimizing for Einstein and other homo-erotic theories
- Let’s not replace the SAT with a big data approach
- The endgame for PageRank
- Working at the Columbia Journalism School
- Julia Angwin’s Dragnet Nation
- The sun goes around the earth
- SAT overhaul
- Could we use eminent domain to help suffering homeowners? (#OWS)
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- An attempt to FOIL request the source code of the Value-added model
- Speaking tonight at NYC Open Data
- Gaming the (risk/legal) system
- How much is your data worth?
- Report from an MSRI MOOC conversation
February 2014
- Data journalism
- What privacy advocates get wrong
- Ya’ make your own luck, n’est-ce pas?
- How can we regulate around discrimination?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The CARD Act works
- JP Morgan suicides and the clustering illusion
- Crashing a Wall Street party
- Does making it easier to kill people result in more dead people?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Intentionally misleading data from Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation
- Why is math research important?
- Interview on Math-Frolic with Shecky Riemann
- Interview with Bill McCallum, lead writer of Math Common Core
- Bad debit cards are not the answer to bad FICO scores
- Ask Tante Nina and Aunt Pythia
- Join Alt Banking #OWS
- Researching the Common Core
- Matt Stoller is tearing up Tumblr
- Guest Post: Beauty, even in the teaching of mathematics
- How to Lie With Statistics (in the Age of Big Data)
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
January 2014
- Journalism after Snowden
- Friday protest in Queens against Fast Track TPP #OWS
- Diane Ravitch speaks in Westchester
- Jamie Dimon’s bonus too low – shoulda been $100 million at least
- A visit to Fair Foods in winter
- How do you define success for a calculus MOOC?
- Upcoming talks
- If it’s hocus pocus then it’s not math
- The coming Calculus MOOC Revolution and the end of math research
- Billionaire money in mathematics
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Jmm
- What is regulation for?
- Two thoughts on math research papers
- Magic pill thought experiment
- I’m writing a book called Weapons of Math Destruction
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- AMS Panel on The Public Face of Mathematics
- Short Facebook
- Four Horsemen showing this Sunday in Alt Banking #OWS
- Judge Rakoff explains why no banker is in jail #OWS
- Parents fighting back against sharing children’s data with InBloom
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- 10 Worst things about Wall Street in 2013 (and 5 Silver Linings) #OWS
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December 2013
- Dallas Fed’s Richard Fisher talks TBTF on EconTalk (#OWS)
- Lean in to what?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- How do opinions and convictions propagate?
- How do we encourage empathy?
- What does a really efficient market look like?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Citigroup is the real reason we need the Volcker Rule
- Insulin level tracking?
- Maybe I have an Irish mind
- Do we really want elite youth to get more elite?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice, flannel version
- International trade agreements and big money bullying #OWS
- Occupy the SEC shows us all how to occupy
- Computer, do I really want to get married?
- Predictive risk models for prisoners with mental disorders
- What’s the best narrative for revolution?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: sex at the end
- PDF Liberation Hackathon: January 17-19
- Algorithmic Accountability Reporting: On the Investigation of Black Boxes
- The cost savings of food stamps cuts versus the cost increases of diabetes care
- What are Walmart’s wage incentives?
- Protest JP Morgan at noon on Wednesday #OccupyJPM #OWS
November 2013
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: the long and boring edition
- “People analytics” embeds old cultural problems in new mathematical models
- Today I’m thankful for the pope
- Cool open-source models?
- Twitter and its modeling war
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- People don’t get fired enough
- Cathy’s Wager
- I’m already fat so I may as well be smart
- One reason corporate culture sucks for women
- Debunking Economic Myths #OWS
- Crisis Text Line: Using Data to Help Teens in Crisis
- On being a mom and a mathematician: interview by Lillian Pierce
- #AskJPM and public shaming #OWS
- You are not a loan: Rolling Jubilee eradicates $15,000,000 worth of debt #OWS
- There is no “market solution” for ethics
- How do I know if I’m good enough to go into math?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Alan Greenspan still doesn’t get it. #OWS
- Math pick-up lines
- How do you know when you’ve solved your data problem?
- Yves Smith and Dean Baker discuss the Trans Pacific Partnership #OWS
- How do we fix LIBOR?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The private-data-for-services trade fallacy
October 2013
- Big Papi is my boyfriend
- Harvard Applied Statistics workshop today
- Rubik’s cubes and Selmer groups
- Someone explain to me how accountants think about Capital Appreciation Bonds (#OWS)
- It’s a good day to join a revolution #OWS
- The multiple arms races of the college system
- Occupy for a Fair and Living Wage #OWS
- The scienciness of economics
- Disorderly Conduct with Alexis and Jesse #OWS
- Occupy the SEC, Dodd-Frank, and who has standing in financial regulation #OWS
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- *Doing Data Science* now available on Kindle!
- The case against algebra II
- MAA Distinguished Lecture Series: Start Your Own Netflix
- Are PayDay lenders better than banks? #OWS
- Indiegogo campaign for 2nd edition of Occupy Finance is up! (#OWS)
- Plumping up darts
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Cumulative covariance plots
- Data Skeptic post
- Make Rich People Read Chekhov
- Guest post: Rage against the algorithms
- A.F.R. Transparency Panel coming up on Friday in D.C.
- Sir Andrew Wiles smacks down unethical use of mathematics for profit
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Inside the GOP, a report from Democracy Corps
- I think I understand the revolving door problem
- “The only thing we really learned from the S&L scandal was how CEO’s should lawyer up”
- New Essay, On Being a Data Skeptic, now out
September 2013
- “Here and Now” is shilling for the College Board
- Sunday morning reading
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Sometimes, The World Is Telling You To Polish Up Your LinkedIn Profile
- A Code of Conduct for data scientists from the Bellagio Fellows
- Are you cliterate?
- Upcoming talks
- I’d like you to eventually die
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The bursting of the big data bubble
- Book Club for Occupy Finance (#OWS)
- Awesome press for Occupy Finance #OWS
- Happy Birthday, Occupy Wall Street! #OWS
- Happy Larry Summers isn’t the Fed Chair Day! #OWS
- Learning accounting
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Movie Review: Network
- Interactive scoring models: why hasn’t this happened yet?
- Occupy Finance the book, coming out next Tuesday (#OWS)
- Working in the NYC Mayor’s Office
- The art of definition
- Sunday morning musing: is sexism an addiction?
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- Simons Center for Data Analysis
- Experimentation in education – still a long way to go
- Entrepreneurship versus the state
- Short your kids, go long your neighbor: betting on people is coming soon
August 2013
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- When to go on the record with email at work
- Summers’ Lending Club makes money by bypassing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- HSBC protest tomorrow at noon with Alternative Banking (#OWS)
- I don’t want you to be happy
- College ranking models
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- Don’t Fly During Ramadan
- Staples.com rips off poor people; let’s take control of our online personas
- You people freaking rock: Occupy Finance officially funded
- Occupy Finance, the book: announcement and fundraising (#OWS)
- When big data goes bad in a totally predictable way
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- What’s the difference between big data and business analytics?
- Are small businesses less corrupt?
- How to be a pickup artist, Silicon Valley style
- Larry Summers and the Lending Club
- Finance and open source
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- New schwag for the Stacks Project
- Survivorship bias for women in men’s fields
- Minorities possible unfairly disqualified from opening bank accounts
- Should lawmakers use algorithms?
- Ask Aunt Pythia – special Sunday edition
- Educational accountability scores get politically manipulated again
- How much is the Stacks Project graph like a random graph?
July 2013
- Analyzing the complexity of the Stacks Project graphs
- The Stacks Project gets ever awesomer with new viz
- Larry Summers being set up to fail?
- PyData talk today
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Huma’s Little Weiner Problem
- Radhika Nagpal is a role model for fun people everywhere
- MOOCs, their failure, and what is college for anyway?
- Proprietary credit score model now embedded in law
- If we bailed out the banks, why not Detroit? (#OWS)
- Math fraud in pensions
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The Stop and Frisk sleight of hand
- Money in politics: the BFF project
- THIS REQUIRES YOUR MOCKERY
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The creepy mindset of online credit scoring
- On being a data science skeptic: due out soon
- PyData and a few other things
- Measuring Up by Daniel Koretz
- Parenting through benign neglect
- Aunt Pythia: alive and well!
- You give me a capital requirement, I’ll give you a derivative to skirt it.
- The regressive domestic complexity tax
- Payroll cards: “It costs too much to get my money” (#OWS)
June 2013
- When is smaller better?
- Aunt Pythia: on her death bed
- How to understand the career trajectory of Larry Summers
- How to be wrong
- When is math like a microwave?
- Who stays off the data radar?
- Tonight: first Data Skeptics Meetup, Suresh Naidu
- Ask Aunt Pythia and Cousin Lily: Sunday edition
- The politics of data mining
- Occupy Wonder!
- I am the bus queen of Stockholm
- Why Education Isn’t Like Sports
- Swedish vacation
- Guest post, The Vortex: A Cookie Swapping Game for Anti-Surveillance
- Crash the pick-up party with me?
- Where’s the outrage over private snooping?
- Knowing the Pythagorean Theorem
- Profit as proxy for value
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Moneyball Diplomacy
- Who speaks Hebrew?
- Book out for early review
- How proxies fail
- How much would you pay to be my friend?
- Let’s enjoy the backlash against hackathons
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: finally some sex questions!
May 2013
- Technocrats and big data
- Left Forum panels next weekend: #OWS Alt Banking meeting and a debate with Doug Henwood
- Huge fan of citibikes
- New Jersey at risk of implementing untested VAM-like teacher evaluation model
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: fake sex, boredom, peeing in the toilet, knitting Klein bottles, and data project management
- The Bounded Gaps Between Primes Theorem has been proved
- Fight back against surveillance using TrackMeNot, TrackMeNot mobile?
- Mr. Ratings Reformer Goes to Washington: Some Thoughts on Financial Industry Activism
- Eben Moglen teaches us how not to be evil when data-mining
- Money, food, and the local
- Housing bubble or predictable consequence of income inequality?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: not at all about sex
- Dow at an all-time high, who cares?
- Star Trek is my religion
- Salt it up, baby!
- SEC Roundtable on credit rating agency models today
- WSJ: “When Your Boss Makes You Pay for Being Fat”
- When is shaming appropriate?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice: online dating, probabilistic programming, children, and sex in the teacher’s lounge
- Caroline Chen on the ABC Conjecture
- E-discovery and the public interest (part 2)
- E-discovery and the public interest
- The NYC Data Skeptics Meetup
- In defense of neglectful parenting
- Do what I want or do what I really want
- Aunt Pythia’s advice – nose rings, breakups, itchy fingers, and data science
- What does it mean that our public square is a private place?
- The rise of big data, big brother
- Why we should break up the megabanks (#OWS)
April 2013
- Mathbabe, the book
- Guest post: Kaisa Taipale visualizes mathematics Ph.D.’s emigration patterns
- Good news Sunday
- Ask Aunt Pythia
- Alternative Banking news (#OWS): Left Forum, Citigroup coverage, Occupy Finance
- Who’s tracking the trackers?
- Big data and surveillance
- 10 reasons to protest at Citigroup’s annual shareholder meeting tomorrow (#OWS)
- How to reinvent yourself, nerd version
- How much math do scientists need to know?
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- On being an alpha female, part 2
- Is That a Math Poem in Your Pocket?
- Global move to austerity based on mistake in Excel
- Tax haven in comedy: the Caymans (#OWS)
- Interview with Chris Wiggins: don’t send me another $^%& shortcut alias!
- War of the machines, college edition
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- A public-facing math panel
- Ina Drew: heinously greedy or heinously incompetent?
- New creepy model: job hiring software
- Hey WSJ, don’t blame unemployed disabled people for the crap economy
- Tweenage angst, RSS feeds, and upcoming talks
- Elizabeth Fischer talks about climate modeling at Occupy today
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Guest post by Julia Evans: How I got a data science job
- K-Nearest Neighbors: dangerously simple
- We don’t need more complicated models, we need to stop lying with our models
- Guest post: Divest from climate change
- Giving isn’t the secret
March 2013
- Value-added model doesn’t find bad teachers, causes administrators to cheat
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- WTF is happening in Cyprus?
- Leila Schneps is a mystery writer!
- Nerd Nite: A Drunken Venue for Ideas
- Hackprinceton
- Intermezzo II
- Aunt Orthoptera: Advice from an Arthropod
- Guest Post SuperReview: Intermezzo
- Guest Post SuperReview Part III of VI: The Occupy Handbook Part I and a little Part II: Where We Are Now
- Guest Post SuperReview Part II of VI: The Occupy Handbook Part I: How We Got Here
- Guest Post SuperReview Part I of VI: The Occupy Handbook
- Data science code of conduct, Evgeny Morozov
- Modeling in Plain English
- Aunt Pythia’s advice – sex edition
- Data audits and data strategies
- “The problem here is not the message. The problem is the messenger.”
- I kind of hate TED talks
- Black Scholes and the normal distribution
- Team Turnstile: how do NYC neighborhoods recover from extreme weather events?
- Modeling fraud in the financial system
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Unintended Consequences of Journal Ranking
- Poseurs should not own the backlash against data science poseurs
- WTF happened to feminism?!
- A blogging parliament
- HSBC Action today at noon
- Nasty reader comments and blogging
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Prices in the junk bond market
February 2013
- Is mathematics a vehicle for control fraud?
- How much are the taxpayers subsidizing too-big-to-fail banks, if not $83 billion per year?
- Ninja Warrior – Sasuke
- The overburdened prior
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Break up the megabanks already (#OWS)
- NYC data hackathons, past and future: Politics, Occupy, and Climate change (#OWS)
- Mathbabe t-shirts for sale!
- Good news for professors: online courses suck
- Five false myths that make liberals feel good
- Phenomenal woman
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- HSBC protest yesterday (#OWS)
- There should be a macho way to say “I don’t know”
- The smell test for big data
- Johnson Research Labs
- Occupy HSBC: Valentine’s Day protest at noon #OWS
- Gender bias in math
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Looking for ideas for a mathbabe logo
- It’s not that I don’t understand you, it’s that you’re wrong
- Bad model + high stakes = gaming
- HSBC Valentine’s Day action (#OWS)
- Links to videotaped talks and pdf slides
- Barry Mazur wins the National Medal of Science
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- The Sandy Hook Project
January 2013
- Singularity Institute and Google: what are their plans?
- Money in politics
- Bill Gates is naive, data is not objective
- This is what it feels like to be a snob
- Advice for young women math professors
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Sentiment should not be the new horizon in journalism
- I love me some nerd girls
- The senseless war between business and IT/data
- The Compliment Gang
- Google search is already open source
- The Yarn Whisperer
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- Alt-Banking calls on Senate to defend Main Street against Wall Street (#OWS)
- R is mostly like python but sometimes like SQL
- Quantifying the pull of poverty traps
- ThoughtWorks
- Should the U.S. News & World Reports college ranking model be open source?
- Leaning into the pain
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- At the JMM
- Data scientists and engineers needed for a weekend datafest exploring money and politics
- Data Science explained by the media, or: why I might just screw your wife while you’re at work
- The complexity feedback loop of modeling
- I don’t have to prove theorems to be a mathematician
- Sunday (late) morning reading list
- Aunt Pythia’s advice
- I wish I knew now what I’ll know then
- Planning for the robot revolution
- Open data and the emergence of data philanthropy
- Is mathbabe a terrorist or a lazy hippy? (#OWS)