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Cathy O'Neil

Cathy O’Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org

July 2017

  • Python programming code on a screen

    How can we stop algorithms telling lies?

  • Nurses protest against the pay cap outside the Ministry of Helath in London<br>epa06052581 Nurses begin a summer of protest against the British Government's pay cap outside the Ministry of Health in central London, Britain, 27 June 2017. Media reports state that nurses and health care assistants will join protests in 30 locations across Britain, timed for the June pay day in the National Health Service (NHS), to mark the start of the Royal Colleage of Nursing's (RCN) ‘summer of protest’. The RCN are calling for the British Prime Minister Theresa May to remove the one per cent pay cap the current restriction on pay increaeses that has been in place for the past seven years. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    Politics Weekly UK
    Public sector pay – Politics Weekly podcast

September 2016

  • Nathalie Lees

    The long read
    How algorithms rule our working lives

    The Long Read: Employers are turning to mathematically modelled ways of sifting through job applications. Even when wrong, their verdicts seem beyond dispute – and they tend to punish the poor
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