Carnegie the Statistician | Stats + Stories Episode 216
The Gilded Age in the U.S. is perhaps best known for the great men who rose to prominence at the time. Men such as John D. Rockefeller and JP Morgan, who made money hand over fist. One of those men Andrew Carnegie was not only a shrewd businessman, he was also a shrewd statistician of sorts. His legacy is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Christopher Tong. How you got interested in Andrew Carnegie as a statistician? (1:33), Carnegie’s background (3:44), How much influence did his work have? (8:58), The Census (10:11), the ASA today (15:48), How does his work inform…
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