Cathy O'Neil

Cathy (Catherine) Helen O'Neil is the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books, including Weapons of Math Destruction. She was the former Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Tow Center and was employed as Data Science Consultant at Johnson Research Labs.

She lives in New York City and is active in the Occupy movement.

O'Neil attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1999, and afterward held positions in the mathematics departments of MIT and Barnard College, doing research in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She left academia in 2007, and worked for four years in the finance industry, including two years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. After becoming disillusioned with the world of finance, O'Neil became involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement, participating in its Alternative Banking Group.

She is a co-author (with Rachel Schutt) of Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline (O'Reilly 2013, ). She also wrote an e-book On Being a Data Skeptic (O'Reilly Media 2013, ASIN: B00G3M9JY2). Her book Weapons of Math Destruction was published in 2016 (Crown, ) and has been nominated for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

O'Neil lives in New York City with her husband Aise Johan de Jong and their three sons.

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