Episode #185: Arathi Sethumadhavan
Arathi Sethumadhavan, Head of User Research for Ethics & Society at Microsoft’s Cloud+AI, visits the podcast to talk about her work and what it means to use data ethically.
Continue readingArathi Sethumadhavan, Head of User Research for Ethics & Society at Microsoft’s Cloud+AI, visits the podcast to talk about her work and what it means to use data ethically.
Continue readingAuthor and professor Safiya Noble visits the podcast to talk about the intersection of race and technology, and how “technological redlining” will impact people of color today and in the future.
Continue readingLast week, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published its monthly Employment Situation Summary. A few major issues came to light with this month’s report that I thought worth discussing. First, the attacks on a nonpartisan federal government agency. Second,…
Continue readingIn case you don’t know, for the last 12 weeks or so I’ve been hosting live video chats with experts in the fields of data, presentation skills, and data visualization. This Data@Urban Digital Discussion series gives (I hope!) people an…
Continue readingRonald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and he joins me this week on the podcast to talk about the 2020 Census. In this role at the ASA, Wasserstein provides executive leadership and…
Continue readingDavid Johnson is the Deputy Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that position, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He also served as the chief of the…
Continue readingAlberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He teaches data visualization and infographics in our Journalism and Interactive Media Masters programs, and he is also the director of the Visualization Program at UM’s Center…
Continue readingOn last week’s episode, I sat outside Facebook and chatted with Andy Kirk about our experience at the Social Science Foo Camp, a two-and-a-half day conference at Facebook that brought together all sorts of social scientists. One of the first…
Continue readingI hope you’ve enjoyed the last few episodes of the podcast. Continuing a theme that has been present in the last few episodes, on this week’s show I welcome Javier Zarracina from Vox and Anna Flagg from the Marshall Project…
Continue readingThe conventional wisdom these days is that our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. We are always looking down at our phones, not looking at the world around us. Conversations don’t occur because we need to check email or…
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