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Methods Live

In an era where fake news and questionable logic abound, Methods is a new podcast that uncovers how we know what we know and why the way we got there matters. Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, sits down with an expert researcher and finds out how they find facts. Join Borel for a live taping with guest data reporter Lam Thuy Vo and Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

Lam Thuy Vo is a data reporter at BuzzFeed News where she tells stories about the effects of technology on society, about economics, and about social issues. She has analyzed thousands of tweets directed at the subject of a conservative conspiracy theory to simulate what it feels like to be trolled; traced the spread of viral false information through the web; and has compiled and examined the engagement around millions of Facebook posts to better understand the new partisan news ecosystem that sprung up around the contentious 2016 elections. She has taught data journalism at workshops and universities around the world and is currently writing an instructional book on social data mining.

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 Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View and wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. She recently founded ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company.











When: Tue., Nov. 28, 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Caveat
21 Clinton St.
212-228-2100
Price: $20
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In an era where fake news and questionable logic abound, Methods is a new podcast that uncovers how we know what we know and why the way we got there matters. Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, sits down with an expert researcher and finds out how they find facts. Join Borel for a live taping with guest data reporter Lam Thuy Vo and Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

Lam Thuy Vo is a data reporter at BuzzFeed News where she tells stories about the effects of technology on society, about economics, and about social issues. She has analyzed thousands of tweets directed at the subject of a conservative conspiracy theory to simulate what it feels like to be trolled; traced the spread of viral false information through the web; and has compiled and examined the engagement around millions of Facebook posts to better understand the new partisan news ecosystem that sprung up around the contentious 2016 elections. She has taught data journalism at workshops and universities around the world and is currently writing an instructional book on social data mining.

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 Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View and wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. She recently founded ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company.

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