Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog
mathbabe.org. She earned a
Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people's purchases and clicks. O'Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of
Doing Data Science. She is currently a columnist for
Bloomberg View.
