Media
Some of my academic and industry work has been covered in the media …
AI in Agriculture (@ Bowery Farming)
- New Yorker, The Age of Robot Farmers
- Fortune, A.I. gets down in the dirt as precision agriculture takes off
- New York Times, No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.
Investor behavior and data science (@ Betterment)
- Betterment, Why’d I do that: Never forget with the Investing Journal
- Professional Wealth Management, Marrying automation and traditional banking
- Bank Investment Consultant, The Advantage of Data-Driven Financial Advice
- Betterment, Betterment Customers Stay the Course, Steer Clear of Behavior Gap
- Betterment, Data Suggests Women Are Better (Behaved) Investors
- Ascent (Columbia/CUNY/NYU/Cornell), Career transitions from academia to data science (video) at About.com
Academic Dishonesty (from my time @ Carnegie Mellon and Duke)
I was quoted in both of these pieces in 2023 exploring the people and backstories surrounding questions about Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely’s research ethics.
- New Yorker, They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?
- New York Times, The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers
Admissions and hiring decisions (@ Carnegie Mellon)
- Los Angeles Times, Grade inflation works – in schools and in the workforce, study finds
- Wall Street Journal, M.B.A. Admission Tip: Always Go for an Easy ‘A’ & In Hiring and Promoting, Look Beyond Results
- Financial Times, Employers’ blind spot that causes hiring mistakes
- Businessweek, Colleges With Lenient Grades Get Six Times as Many Grads Into B-School
- Scientific American, How Data Beats Intuition at Making Selection Decisions
- Boston Globe, The trouble with grade inflation: It works. Easy A’s really do open doors, suggests a new study.
- USA Today, College grade inflation: Does A stand for ‘average’?
- Quartz, The psychological phenomenon that skews college admissions and hiring
- Pacific Standard, There’s a Good Reason Grade Inflation Is Here to Stay
- Inside Higher Education, Questionable Admissions
- McKnight’s Long Term Care News, Employers giving too much credit when hiring: research
- Daily Cal, Study finds admissions officers prone to select students with inflated grades
- Daily Princetonian, New research on grade deflation’s impact concerns Eisgruber ’83
- Association for Psych Science, Grade inflation works – in schools and in the workforce, study finds
- McKnight’s Long Term Care News, Employers giving too much credit when hiring: research
- Haas Newsroom, Are You Hiring the Wrong Person?
- HBS Working Knowledge, Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
Geopolitical forecasting and wisdom of the crowd (@ UPenn & UC Berkeley)
- Economist, Forecasting examined, the World in 2014 appears & Adventures in Punditry
- New York Times, Forecasting Fox
- New Yorker, When Less Confidence Leads to Better Results
- Washington Post, Good judgment in forecasting international affairs
- National Public Radio, So You Think You’re Smarter Than a CIA Agent
- Smithsonian, Can Crowds Predict the Future?
- Foreign Policy, Trending Upward, How the intelligence community can better see into the future
Profiles
- Carnegie Mellon, A Buggy Connection
- The Data Incubator, How a Degree in Social Science Can Lead to a Career as a Data Scientist
- Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Office, Alumni: Sam Swift