Mark Trahant, editor-at-large for ICT, and Dee Alexander, Intergovernmental Tribal Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau, join host Krys Boyd to discuss the ways the government counts tribal affiliation vs. the ways tribes count their roles.
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W. Joseph Campbell joins us to talk about how polling works and why data sometimes fail to predict the future.
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ProPublica health reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about how we should interpret the numbers to get a sense of where we’re headed.
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Daniel Pink joins us to talk about how we can use data to better plan our lives.
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University of Southern California assistant professor Safiya Umoja Noble joins us to talk about how data can discriminate.
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Dr. Munro Cullum and Dr. Hunt Batjer join us to talk about what they have learned from tracking concussions among middle- and high-school athletes in Texas.
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Adam Tanner joins us to talk about how we can balance the benefits that big data provides while also preserving patient privacy.
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This hour, we’ll talk about why internalizing seemingly unconnected data actually makes us better thinkers with William Poundstone. His new book is called “Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts are so Easy to Look Up” (Little, Brown and Co.).
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This hour, we’ll talk about a shift in the business model of cybercrimes with Josephine Wolff, whose story “The New Economics of Cybercrime” appears in The Atlantic
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This hour, we’ll talk about how we can keep our financial data secure with Adam Levin, author of “Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves.”
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We’ll talk about how America ranks with other industrialized nations with Matt Rooney, director of the economic growth program at the Bush Center.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how statistics can lead us to Mr. (or Mrs.) Right with Jon Birger, author of “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman).
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