Members of the Penn Community,
We have some exciting news! Cathy O’Neil, the author of the New York Times best-selling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was a semifinalist for the National Book Award and the Penn Reading Project selection for 2019-2020, will speak at Penn on Tuesday, January 28 in celebration of Data Privacy Day!
Please join us for this thought-provoking discussion in the Penn Museum’s newly renovated Harrison Auditorium on Tuesday, January 28 from 6pm-7pm (33rd Street entrance doors open at 5:30pm). Admission is free and seats are first come, first served. Accessible seating available.
We hope to see you there!
This Year of Data event is made possible by generous contributions from the Center for Public Health Initiatives, Math Department, Penn Libraries, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, and Wolf Humanities Center.
About Cathy O'Neil
In addition to being the author of this year's Penn Reading Project selection, Cathy O'Neil is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and founded the company ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company. She earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT math department, and was a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quantitative analyst for the hedge fund, D.E. Shaw, in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She left finance in 2011 and started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene, building models that predicted people’s purchases and clicks. Cathy wrote Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the
Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014.