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Chris Volinsky

1 appearance on the record.

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14statements → 9claims → 5claims resolved → 80%fully supported → 4.29/5average certainty → 1.43/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

4 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 4 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 Chris argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Volinsky: Cell tower location data pegs users roughly within a square kilometer
“And so that might peg you down to roughly within a square kilometer less if you're in New York, more if you're in a suburban or rural area.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 7:57 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Volinsky: AT&T does not sell its customer mobility data
“We actually don't sell it yet at all.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 20:25 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
0% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

264 words/min while actually speaking · 31.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Chris Volinsky: 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: 4,262 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 Chris Volinsky said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Volinsky: Cell phone data reflects identity, browsing habits, and physical location
“Your cell phone Is a real reflection of who you are, where you surf, where you are.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 3:00 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volinsky: AT&T does not monitor or retain call or text content
“We never have any idea of what you're talking about or who you're texting, or what you're texting, the content of your text. All we have is a transactional record that this phone was at this location and made this particular transaction, but we don't know any …”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 6:38 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volinsky: AT&T always processes mobile network data anonymously
“We always look at the data in anonymous form. We aggregate whenever possible when the application allows it.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 7:00 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Volinsky: Effective data visualization often requires large physical paper printouts
“Sometimes to do really good data visualization, You need to kill some trees, unfortunately. There's not, there's very little substitute for, like, actually printing something out huge and putting it on the wall.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 10:31 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Contradicted
Volinsky: AT&T does not sell its customer mobility data
“We actually don't sell it yet at all.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 20:25 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Volinsky: AT&T plans to sell mobility analytics services to municipalities
“Now there's another part, you know, for the services that we might provide to a town or a municipality, that we would sell as a service.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 21:07 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Volinsky: Cell tower location data pegs users roughly within a square kilometer
“And so that might peg you down to roughly within a square kilometer less if you're in New York, more if you're in a suburban or rural area.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 7:57 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Volinsky: Earth Mover's Distance Is a Brilliant Metric for Data Science
“If you've, if you're working in a, if you're doing data science and you need a good distance metric, this, look at the earth mover distance. I had never heard of it before, and it's a brilliant, brilliant piece of science that's, of course, decades old.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 17:09 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Volinsky: AT&T is developing synthetic datasets to share mobility data safely
“So a project we're working on this year is to create what we call synthetic data, it's just a fancy word for simulated data. What we want to do is create a simulated data set That looks very much like the data that we have, but isn't.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 18:58 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Volinsky: AT&T Labs recently moved into a 30-story windowless building in Tribeca
“We just kind of recently moved into a floor in an old AT&T building here down in Tribeca, and this, you may have seen this if you're down there, it's down on Thomas Street, a thirty-story building with no windows.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 1:15 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Volinsky: Chicago was an early pioneer in open crime data
“Chicago is one of the first players. They have online a whole bunch of crime statistics. You can go and download the data. They have APIs to it.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 4:12 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Volinsky: Boston uses Street Bump to improve pothole repair efficiency
“Boston has this thing called Street Bump where you can report potholes so that when they send out pothole crews, they can be more efficient in, in filling those potholes.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 4:52 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volinsky: AT&T cell data shows Morristown High School activity spikes
“This was pointed at Morristown High School. So the three spikes on the bottom are texting spikes at the beginning of the day, before school started, during the lunch hour, and when they get out of school. And then you see when they get out of school at two 30,…”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 11:20 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AT&T Labs Drove 12 Morristown Routes 10 Times for Cell Training Data
“We went out and we drove each of these 12 routes 10 times each with two phones in the car, making calls, and GPS running on each one, and to get our training set to understand if you're on this route, what does the cell tower handoff sequence look like?”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 16:11 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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Appearances (1)

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Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Mar 20, 2014 18m
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