http://old.techpresident.com/taxonomy/term/12328/0 Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She left finance in 2011 and started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene, building models that predicted people's purchases and clicks. She wrote the book Doing Data Science and started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia. She is a weekly guest on the Slate Money podcast and is currently writing a book about the dark side of big data. en http://old.techpresident.com/media/weapons-math-destruction http://old.techpresident.com/media/weapons-math-destruction#comments Video Confronting the Future Cathy O’Neil NYC 2015 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:04:25 +0000 jol 25561 at http://old.techpresident.com