December 10, 1963 – February 27, 2024
As Halloween approaches, interest in spooky ghosties increases as much as the Golden Gateโs wind speed. So we took this opportunity to speak to three paranormal investigators, two skeptics, and a physicist in an attempt to examine the supernatural in terms of what we know best: data.
How a group of Silicon Valley designers, epidemiologists, and public policy wonks created a tool for truth in their spare time.
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Joseph Ensminger received a text message asking if he could make time to help launch a data platform that projects COVID infections, hospitalizations, and deaths across the United States. The first step was getting in front of people who could make the necessary public health decision: Americaโs legislators, private sector leaders, and public health officials. The challenge was that this list did not yet exist.
