Walt Hickey is a data journalist who launched a newsletter for numeric nerds several months ago. He’s worked for Business Insider, FiveThirtyEight, and, currently, Insider (a sister company to BI), often writing about the intersection of culture and data: How we can understand movies, books, and social trends better through a filter of numbers, or how… Continue reading What’s the Three One One in Two Oh One Eight, Walt Hickey? (Episode 106)
Month: December 2018
Grand Inventions: Counting Gears with Chris Higgins (Episode 105)
“Grand Inventions” is a new micro-series within The New Disruptors in which I talk to people whose grandparents or great-x-parents invented something that’s still current or in use today. Two things sparked this micro-series idea for me. First, my grandfather’s stories of making a suggestion during WWII at an IBM wartime manufacturing plant that led to improved… Continue reading Grand Inventions: Counting Gears with Chris Higgins (Episode 105)