Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer
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Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer
Numbers Geek is the podcast where we use numbers and data to make sense of the world. We take on issues from education to politics to basketball and beyond — with leaders in business, tech and entertainment. Our resident Numbers Geek is Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO and current owner of...
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Finale: Most Important Numbers in the World
If GDP and the stock market don't fully capture the economic health of the U.S. and its citizens, what numbers should we be watching? What are the key...
A picture of America in numbers
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's non-partisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative, USAFacts, today is publishing its third annual report on U.S....
What Happened to the Middle Class?
People from across the political spectrum use a lot of different words to answer the question of what happened to the middle class: Hollowed out, wipe...
Bonus: Steve Ballmer analyzes his team's historic NBA win
With even more yelling and fist-pumping than normal, Steve Ballmer might not have seemed like an analytical guy to casual fans watching his LA Clipper...
Numbers of the NBA: Courtside with Steve Ballmer
Sure, you know how many points your favorite NBA player scored in his last game. But how do turnovers, field goal percentage and rebounds improve chan...
Shark Tank's billion-dollar blunder
Back in 2013, Jamie Siminoff was the founder and chief inventor of a struggling video doorbell company, pinning all the startup’s hopes on his appeara...
Crunching the Numbers of 'Shark Tank': A $30M Rejection
$30 million. That number will forever be associated with our guest on this week's Numbers Geek podcast, Arum Kang, co-founder and co-CEO of Coffee Mee...
Diagnosing U.S. healthcare: Steve's key numbers to know
Healthcare is suddenly back on the U.S. political agenda, and it remains one of the most important and misunderstood issues in the country. On this ep...
The Case of the Mysterious Income Statement
Can Steve Ballmer figure out the identity of an anonymous company just by looking at the numbers on its income statement? On this episode of Numbers G...
Peter Sagal, 'Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me' host
Peter Sagal is best known as the host of NPR’s weekly quiz show, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, which marked its 20th anniversary in October. But he’s also...
Basketball legend Sue Bird
Imagine you’ve been working in the same job for the same organization for your entire career, through all the ups and downs, and suddenly you find you...
Trade-off: U.S., China and the real numbers of global trade
How big is the U.S. trade deficit, in reality, and what are the implications of trade negotiations with China and other major countries around the wor...
National Teacher of the Year, Mandy Manning
Mandy Manning is uniquely qualified to offer her perspective on education, one of the subjects we’ve been exploring this season on Numbers Geek. She a...
The Economics of Immigration
On this episode of Numbers Geek, we put the adjectives and arguments aside and explore the long-term U.S. immigration numbers and trends, including th...
Wrong Number? How to detect bogus data in the news
On this episode of Numbers Geek, we’ll talk with someone who specializes in recognizing "bogus and misleading" numbers in media coverage and public st...
Basketball Box Score Mystery
Can Steve Ballmer identify a famous basketball game purely by the numbers? Can you? That's our fun and enlightening challenge on this new episode of t...
Underestimated: Arlan Hamilton and the new numbers of equality
Arlan Hamilton looks at the number of startup investments going to companies run by women, people of color and LGBT entrepreneurs, and doesn’t just se...
Bonus: Numbers on the Border
Something remarkable happened in the White House this week, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with Pr...
The Education Equation
Student-teacher ratio, teacher pay, graduation rates and test scores. What do the numbers really say about K-12 public education in the U.S.? We'll fi...
Facts Vs. Politics
Can facts heal America's political divide? We attempt to find out on the first episode of Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer, the podcast where we use fa...
Introducing Numbers Geek
Numbers Geek is a new podcast from GeekWire, in partnership with USAFacts, that uses numbers in a quest to understand the world and unite the country....