Cathy O’Neil
Mathematician, data scientist and author
Cathy O’Neil is an American mathematician and data scientist who founded an algorithmic auditing company. She wrote the best-seller Weapons of Math Destruction.
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American Born 1972 in United States, United States
About Cathy O’Neil
Cathy O’Neil is an American mathematician, data scientist and author. Her doctorate in mathematics comes from Harvard, and her career has taken in finance, technology and academia. She taught at Barnard College before working as a data scientist at start-ups. At Columbia University she started the Lede Program, which focuses on data journalism. She also founded ORCAA, a company that audits algorithms. She has written opinion columns for Bloomberg View and a blog called Mathbabe. Weapons of Math Destruction reached the New York Times best-seller list. It received the Euler Book Prize and was also longlisted for the National Book Award.