The Science Wonk: An Interview with FiveThirtyEight’s Christie Aschwanden
We talk about her path from grad school to the news room, the beauty of obscure interests, what artificial intelligence can tell us about the writing process, and more!
We talk about her path from grad school to the news room, the beauty of obscure interests, what artificial intelligence can tell us about the writing process, and more!
”Being at FiveThirtyEight allows me to expound and explain what I’m doing statistically. We also have very smart people in the room– statistically smart people. Instead of there being one or two of those, there’s seven or eight or nine of them. If I want to ask a question or bounce an idea off of someone, it’s very rare that I won’t be able to have the opportunity to do that.
Casselman talks Greece, the minimum wage debate, the simultaneously new and old trend of data journalism, the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and more.