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[laughter] that is not a recipe for progress. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and click on the after words tab to find deborah stones interview along with all previous episodes. High everybody. Welcome to the National Book festival and this had difficult time of the pandemic. One thing we can do, i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who was struggling with one of the central problems of our time. Which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today, toeople who wrote two of the very best books of this summer. About issues related to our new technological associated world. First i want to introduce mark galvin my former colleague at the Washington Post wrote an extraordinary memoir of his dealings with Andrew Snowden that led to t revelations out nsa technology and surveillance. The subtitle of his book says the american
At princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. Isple were saying big data transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data,n police use of big and thats when i decided to pursue an ethnographic study on that question. Susan we will have lots of time to explore the details, but what is the conclusion you came to after you spent this amount of time investigating the topic . Sarah the conclusion is basically that instead of thinking about data as some sort of objective or fundamentally unbiased tool,
Cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data on police use of big data, and thats when i decided to p
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing