What is a meaningful metric? – LIVE

About this episode

The episode explores what makes a metric meaningful in today's data-driven world.

In today’s data-abundant landscape – where everything from website clicks and customer smiles to our own heartbeats is measured – what makes a metric meaningful? This episode was recorded live at an event a few weeks ago in San Francisco and is part of our ongoing series looking at authority; where authority is coming from today. And this episode will focus on the authority of numbers. To explore this question we sat down with with Alon Halevy (Senior Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)), Gabrielle Merite (information designer and founder of Figures & Figures) and Saumya Gupta (Co-Founder Build IRL Accelerator) – to discuss this special power that numbers hold in our society. The panel was hosted by ReD’s Mikkel Krenchel and introduced by Morgan Ramsey Elliot.

People in this episode

Guests: Alon Halevy, Gabrielle Merite, Saumya Gupta

Topics covered

• metrics
• data
• authority
• numbers
• society

Keywords

• data abundance
• meaningful metrics
• authority of numbers

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Amazon Web Services, Figures & Figures, Build IRL Accelerator

Places: San Francisco

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