The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

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)
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)
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)
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 400 conversations transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.