ANNOUNCING SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED PODCAST
BEHIND THE DATA
with ANDREA JONES-ROOY, Ph.D.
Formerly FiveThirtyEight, NYU & host of Majoring In Everything
DATA DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A 4 LETTER WORD!
EIGHT EPISODES OUT WEEKLY
IN MARCH-APRIL 2025
The world feels chaotic, the news is overwhelming. AI, tech, and “the algorithms” are rapidly transforming the way we live, work and even interact with each other. It’s hard to know how to make sense of it all – much less what to do about it!
Instead of throwing our hands up and feeling powerless, data-scientist and comedian Andrea Jones-Rooy offers us a path through the noise: data! It’s at the center of both our political divisions and the tech revolution happening all around us. Too many people think data is only for “math people” or tech nerds – that couldn’t be further from the truth. With her signature energetic style, Andrea Jones-Rooy draws upon her science and comedy chops to keep the technical accessible, the nerdy fun.
Yes data powers AI and creepy modern marketing, but traveling upstream from this powerful resource, to questions such as:
- what to collect data on,
- how to turn an observable thing into a number,
- what we can and cannot learn
empowers us to harness tools of data science in our own lives to better understand the world around us.
Whether we’re trying to spot misinformation, understand why we can’t agree if the economy is healthy (is it?!), or even uncover the secrets of happiness – Andrea believes the very human step of creating the data in the first place can help us find common ground within the most divisive political and social issues of our time.
Join us for Behind the Data season 2, we are going to explore data from the depths of the oceans to the edge of the observable universe, from why work sucks to where our political biases actually come from – through the universal, beautiful, shared language of data. Fascinating guests and lively conversations take you way past the punditry and leave you with a totally fresh lens to understand the world. Come explore the human side of the data that powers our lives. New episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays in March and April, 2025.
Season 2 guests include:
- Ben Casselman, New York Times economics and business reporter
- Joshua Tucker, professor and co-director of the Center for Social Media and Politics
- Dr. Moiya McTier, astrophysicist, folklorist, podcaster, and author of The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
- Rani Molla, tech and culture reporter at Sherwood News, formerly Vox
- Jaida Elcock, MIT shark scientist and science communicator, advocate, and influencer
- Meredith Broussard, NYU data journalism professor and author of More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech and Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
- And more!
Behind the Data is part of the popular Daily Tech News Show network, dedicated to improving our understanding of technology and society in a fast-paced, high-energy, and accessible way.
MORE ABOUT ANDREA JONES-ROOY Ph.D.:
Andrea Jones-Rooy is a unique voice who combines science with comedy to empower audiences of all education levels to combine data with curiosity to make discoveries. AJR helps people learn to cut through the noise, better understand our world, and take action on the issues that matter most.
Andrea holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Formerly a professor of data science at NYU and a quantitative researcher at FiveThirtyEight, Andrea speaks and trains globally at organizations, from Fortune 500s to tech companies to the UN, on how to apply data science to their toughest problems. She currently hosts the podcast Behind the Data, and previously hosted the podcast Majoring in Everything. AJR is also a stand-up comedian and circus performer, although she has done neither at the UN (yet).
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