Abstract
The Harvard Data Science Review got the chance to sit down with Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft and current chairman of the Los Angeles Clippers. Steve was Microsoft's 30th employee in 1980, and retired in 2014 after 14 years as CEO. But what you may not know about him is that he and his wife Connie are working to help remove barriers to economic mobility for Americans living in poverty through their philanthropic Ballmer Group, and Steve started a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization called USAFacts, that curates and contextualizes government data online to help Americans ground their political debates in fact. With his well-known charismatic nature readily apparent, Steve joined us for a discussion on the future of data science in the America. The interview was conducted on July 23, 2019, in Steveâs office in Seattle, by Liberty Vittert, Professor of Practice in Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis, a Royal Statistical Society (UK) Ambassador, and an Media Editor of HDSR.
Highlights
HDSR includes both an video recording and written transcript of the interview below
What you may not know about him is that he and his wife Connie are working to help remove barriers to economic mobility for Americans living in poverty through their philanthropic Ballmer Group, and Steve started a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization called USAFacts, that curates and contextualizes government data online to help Americans ground their political debates
The interview was conducted on July 23, 2019, in Steve’s office in Seattle, by Liberty Vittert, Professor of Practice in Data Science at Washington University in St
Summary
HDSR includes both an video recording and written transcript of the interview below. The transcript that appears below has been edited for purposes of grammar and clarity. What you may not know about him is that he and his wife Connie are working to help remove barriers to economic mobility for Americans living in poverty through their philanthropic Ballmer Group, and Steve started a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization called USAFacts, that curates and contextualizes government data online to help Americans ground their political debates . What numbers can you use to describe the important outcomes of government? LV: These facts are just government data?
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