Slate Money - The Data Detective
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Economist, journalist, and podcaster Tim Harford returns to the show to discuss his new book The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics with Felix Salmon and Emily Peck. They also chew over President Joe Biden’s new stimulus bill and the Beeple NFT.
In the Plus Segment: Florence Nightingale.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the data detective episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business |
| 0:18.6 | and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm here with Emily Peck. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.5 | Hi. |
| 0:27.8 | How's your employment situation these days? |
| 0:30.2 | I am a little less employed these days. |
| 0:32.6 | Today was my last official day at HuffPosts, which just did a lot of layoffs. So we don't know what I'll be |
| 0:39.2 | doing next yet, but it'll be something cool, I'm sure. It'll be awesome. We look forward to finding out |
| 0:43.8 | what it's going to be. No one more so than Tim Harford. Welcome. Hello, Felix. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:51.2 | Tim, I don't know. I've lost track of how many times we've had you on this show. |
| 0:54.8 | It's always fantastic to have you on this show. |
| 0:57.4 | You have a new book out called The Data Detective, which we are going to talk all about. |
| 1:04.8 | It's really fascinating about statistics and how to think about them, how to use them. |
| 1:10.5 | We're going to talk about the stimulus, of course, the $1.9 trillion that has just been |
| 1:16.6 | passed signed into law by President Biden, and we'll talk about the effect of all that. |
| 1:23.4 | But kind of the thing that we've all been waiting for, and then we are going to go into enormous detail about, |
| 1:29.5 | is B-Poole. |
| 1:30.7 | Of course, we have a whole section on B-Pel, |
| 1:33.1 | and we have a Slate Plus on Florence Snydingale. |
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