Hadooponomics

Dr. John Johnson headlined our Hadooponomics show this week as we took a wide view of how we use data to influence our decision making process. For his part, Dr. Johnson is PhD economist and founder and CEO of the firm Edgeworth Economics. Additionally Dr. Johnson is also a new author of his recently published book Everydata. What I especially loved about this episode was our discussion around how to influence and inform others with data. Instead of discussing the usual narrative around how we can better understand data, we took a look from the opposite angle. In this episode we focused on what data savvy influencers (like those of you in our audience) can do to make sure that their work is not misinterpreted or misunderstood. Over the course of the touched on everything from data manipulation tactics to inherent biases within presidential polling, and had some fun discussing absurd spurious correlations as well. Throughout the episode we dive into Dr. Johnson's experience as an expert witness for major corpo