Chris Wiggins

Jul 20, 2023 | libraryjournal.com | Chris Wiggins |Matthew Jones

Wiggins, a professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and chief data scientist at the New York Times, and Jones (Reckoning with Matter), a Guggenheim fellow and history professor at Columbia, take listeners through the history of data, beginning with the origin of statistics as a separate discipline and its widespread acceptance as the backbone of the scientific method.

Apr 25, 2023 | bigthink.com | Chris Wiggins |Matthew Jones

Excerpted from How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Copyright (c) 2023 by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,” wrote the poet Allen Ginsberg.