Contact me with media requests on any of my papers or on my following expert topics: machine learning and public policy, crime data, statistical methods in global health, and the use of big data in society.

Media coverage of my work

Filter bubbles paper

• The New Yorker (2014)
• Vox podcast and article (2016) and another article (2016)
• Tim Harford in the Financial Times: article 1 and article 2 (2017)

‘European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” ‘

• Bloomberg
• wired.com
• Silicon Republic
• Information Week
• fusion.net
• Wiener Zeitung
• Slate
• Significance

Blogging

New Questions, New Answers? A Preliminary Micro-level Statistical Analysis of the 2016 US Presidential Election by Seth Flaxman discusses the findings in “Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Election using ecological inference and distribution regression with census microdata”.

What is Machine Learning?

Created by OxfordSparks in collaboration with Seth Flaxman, Hyunjik Kim, and Yee Whye Teh.