Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society welcome author Cathy O'Neil to NERD to discuss big data. O'Neil will read from her award-winning book, "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy". Photo Credit: Pexel
Catherine ("Cathy") O'Neil is an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org as well as several books on data science, including \_Weapons of Math Destruction\_. She was the former Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Tow Center and was employed as Data Science Consultant at Johnson Research Labs.