Webcast Archives

From the 2015 Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Solomon Hsiang's keynote address, "The Emerging Age of Data-Driven Policy Design: Examples from Trying to Manage the Global Climate".

Advances in data science empower leaders to make better decisions for society. By using new kinds of information unavailable during the last several millennia of government, we can avoid mistakes of the past. We will discuss how data and statistical inference are informing how we manage the global climate rationally, a defining policy challenge for our generation.

Social psychologist and author Jack Glaser makes a compelling case against racial profiling in law enforcement, arguing that it's not only wrong, but can lead to more crimes being committed by non-profiled groups in this timely conversation on race, shooter bias and stereotypes with Oakland Assistant Police Chief Paul Figueroa and Henry E. Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

The 114th Congress convenes in 2015 with just one fifth of the 535 House and Senate seats being filled by women -- a fact that causes UC Berkeley public policy graduate student Suzanne Merkelson to question whether half of the US population is being adequately represented on Capitol Hill.