Nationality American Doctoral advisor Barry Charles Mazur | Spouse Aise Johan de Jong | |
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Institutions MITBarnard CollegeD.E. ShawColumbia University Alma mater UC BerkeleyHarvard University Thesis Jacobians of Curves of Genus One Books Weapons of Math Destructi, Doing Data Science: Straight T, On Being a Data Skeptic Similar Rachel Schutt, Aise Johan de Jong, Felix Salmon | ||
Cathy o neil weapons of math destruction talks at google
Catherine ("Cathy") Helen O'Neil is the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books, 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.
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- Cathy o neil weapons of math destruction talks at google
- Cathy o neil weapons of math destruction
- Education and academic career
- Personal life
- References
She lives in New York City and is active in the Occupy movement.
Cathy o neil weapons of math destruction
Education and academic career
O'Neil attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999, and afterward held positions in the mathematics departments of MIT and Barnard College, doing research in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She left academia in 2007, and worked for four years in the finance industry, including two years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. After becoming disillusioned with the world of finance, O'Neil became involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement, participating in its Alternative Banking Group.
She is a co-author (with Rachel Schutt) of Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline (O'Reilly 2013, ISBN 1449358659). She also wrote an e-book On Being a Data Skeptic (O'Reilly Media 2013, ASIN: B00G3M9JY2). Her book Weapons of Math Destruction was published in 2016 (Crown, ISBN 0553418815) and has been nominated for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Personal life
O'Neil lives in New York City with her husband Aise Johan de Jong and their three sons.
