Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times and a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY. His books include How Data Happened.

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The Future

The wild evolution of data science and how to unpack it

Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.