Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
March 25-28, 2019
San Francisco, CA
Stuart Buck

Stuart Buck
Vice President, Research, Arnold Ventures

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Stuart Buck is the vice president of research at Arnold Ventures, one of the leading funders of research to inform public policy. He has given advice to DARPA, IARPA (the CIA’s research arm), and the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team on rigorous research processes. He has sponsored major efforts showing that even the best scientific research is often irreproducible; this work has been featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic. He has also published in top journals (such as Science and BMJ) on how to make research more accurate. He holds a PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas, where he studied econometrics, statistics, and program evaluation; a JD with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance from the University of Georgia.

Sessions

2:30pm3:00pm Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Location: 2024
Yiannis Kanellopoulos (Code4Thought), Rumman Chowdhury (Accenture), Kathy Baxter (Salesforce), Carole Piovesan (INQ Data Law), Stuart Buck (Arnold Ventures)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
We've looked at some possible solutions. But a more complete perspective includes what's right and where we're making mistakes—from the reproducibility of social sciences to the regulations of governments. We wrap up our look at possible solutions with a group discussion. Read more.
1:50pm2:30pm Thursday, March 28, 2019
Strata Business Summit
Location: 2018
Stuart Buck (Arnold Ventures)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Academic research has been plagued by a reproducibility crisis in fields ranging from medicine to psychology. Stuart Buck explains how to take precautions in your data analysis and experiments so as to avoid those reproducibility problems. Read more.