You can teach an old dog new tricks: machine learning at a 163-year old company
Like every other industry that is being disrupted by the internet, media companies are finding it increasingly important to work with and understand the data behind their business, and the New York Times is no exception. Chris Wiggins, a theoretical physicist and expert in machine learning, is the chief data scientist at the Times, and he will tell us how he is trying to help the paper collect and understand the data that will shape its future as a newspaper in the digital age.

