Chris Wiggins

1 month ago | lse.ac.uk | Alison Powell |Chris Wiggins |Erin Young

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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.