Analyze Society and You Have a Trend: A conversation with The Markup’s Adrianne Jeffries

Episode description

Follow the Data: On this week’s episode of Track Changes, tech journalist Adrianne Jeffries sits down with us to talk about The Markup, a new non-profit data driven newsroom. She talks about the importance of using data to combat bias and about how using data in journalism can bring about greater change. She also addresses the shake up that happened at The Markup in its beginnings and tells us about her personal podcast Underunderstood. 

Links: 

- The Markup 

- Propublica  

- Machine Bias by Propublica

- HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination by Propublica 

- New York Times

- Buzzfeed 

- Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers

- ReadWrite 

- TechCrunch 

- New York Observer

- Motherboard 

- The Outline