• Chris Wiggins on a History of Data From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

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    In this episode, Andrew talks to the How Data Happened co-author Chris Wiggins on a history of data from the Age of Reason to today’s Age of Algorithms.

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    Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times‘s chief data scientist. He resides in New York City.


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