Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O'Neil has written at least 8 books. Their most popular book is Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy with 259 saves with an average rating of 3.7⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Nonfiction, Business & Economics, and Mathematics.
informative is their most common moods.
Author Bio
**Cathy O’Neil** is a data scientist and author of the blog [mathbabe.org](https://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*.
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