Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy ONeil, Talks at Google

Cathy O Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog She earned a in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector and working for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. O Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of Doing Data She appears weekly on the Slate Money podcast. In this talk, O Neil sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabr