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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Algorithms: what are they? And how can you use them to predict someone's exam results? Matt Chorley speaks to Timandra Harkness, journalist and author of 'Big Data: Does Size Matter?' to find out.
Timandra's shortly followed by Theresa May's former spokesman, Paul Harrison, and former Liberal Democrat adviser Sean Kemp who tell Matt what it's like to be in the eye of a political storm.
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1:02.8 | Hello, I'm Matt Cholly. This is the Red Box Podcast, |
1:05.2 | each and the best of my show on Times Radio, |
1:06.9 | Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1. |
1:08.6 | Now, obviously exams are in the news a lot, |
1:12.0 | but what we try to do today was explain what's going on |
1:15.4 | behind the scenes in a moment I speak to Paul Harrison for Theresa May's |
1:19.2 | former spokesman and Sean Kemp who was a spinner for the Lib Dems when they were in coalition, about what happens, |
1:26.6 | what's it like bringing the eye of the storm, particularly if you upset the nation's young people. |
1:31.6 | But first of all, algorithms algorithms I spoke to to manager |
1:34.3 | Harkness about the technology which is deciding students futures. So let's start |
1:40.0 | right at the beginning because it's one of those things where everyone just says oh it's the algorithm |
1:44.0 | just explain exactly what an algorithm is and how it's been used in in this case to come up with |
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