Catherine Williams

Chief Data Officer, Candid · 1 appearance on the record.

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Catherine Williams is the Chief Data Officer at Candid, leading data strategy and AI initiatives. She previously served as Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus and Vice President of Data & AI at Qualtrics.

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3 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Catherine argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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237 words/min while actually speaking · 6.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Catherine Williams: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,726 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Catherine Williams said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Product teams lacking data science, engineering, or product management are unstable
“The data science product engineering trifecta was just a very, very powerful combination. And when you were lacking one, it didn't, it was unstable.”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 20:11 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AppNexus operated about 1,500 global bidding server instances
“These bidding instances, there's actually about 1500 of them spread in data centers around the world”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 8:23 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Disclosure
AppNexus leveraged Google's trillion-word corpus for domain word-splitting algorithms
“The data here is the Google trillion word corpus, right, where they scrape the entire internet, look for the frequencies of all the different strings, including misspellings, right, and that basically gives you a probability of any given string being, like, a …”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 13:52 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AppNexus processes 30 billion daily impressions on a 16-node Hadoop cluster
“We have a 16 node Hadoop cluster currently, and I have on my proposed budget for 2015, a 200 node Hadoop cluster so that we can really get our hands on all that raw data of the thirty billion impressions we're transacting daily.”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 14:48 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AppNexus has no first-party data
“We don't have any first party data at all.”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 17:13 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Disclosure
AppNexus previously relied on human auditors to detect adult content
“We had a team of human auditors who would literally just go look at websites and determine whether or not they were porn.”
Catherine Williams Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 11:02 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014 Nov 20, 2014 13m
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