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Wiggins: 'Statistics' entered English to mean statecraft, not math or data
“Statistics entered the English language to mean statecraft. It had nothing to do with math, and it certainly had nothing to do with data.”
Wiggins: Early US computing was funded by intelligence for data processing
“That story had its own mirror on the other side of the Atlantic in Bell Labs, and how Bell Labs played a crucial role in scaling up code breaking as a computational problem that pairs Bell Labs with the nascent intelligence community, which goes on to fund IBM…”
Wiggins: The creator of 'artificial intelligence' coined the term for funding
“The guy who invented the term is on record as saying I made up the term to get money”
Wiggins: Early AI research rejected data in favor of logic
“It's really for the first half of the life of artificial intelligence, people thought it had nothing to do with data whatsoever.”
Wiggins: Sir Francis Galton coined regression, correlation, and eugenics
“One of the founders of mathematical statistics we look at is Sir Francis Galton. Distant cousin of Charles Darwin, who gives us the word regression, give us the word correlation, and gives us the word eugenics.”
Wiggins: The New York Times data science team has about 22 people
“So the data science team is about a 22 person team that develops and deploys machine learning. For newsroom and business problems.”
US print advertising spend fell about 50% from 2008 to 2012
“Print advertising spend in the United States lost about 50% of its value in like four years, 2008 to 2012.”
Wiggins: Guinness was the hottest IPO of the late 19th century
“The, that chapter opens up with the hottest IPO in the late 19th century, which was Guinness. So Guinness, the beer company, IPO'd in late 1800, and like literally people were breaking the doors down to try to get on that, get in on that IPO.”