Liberty Vittert

Vittert cooking on TV in 2018

Liberty Vittert Capito is an American statistician,[1] political commentator,[2] and host of Liberty’s Great American Cookbook, a cooking show on Scottish Television.[3][4][5]

Vittert is a Professor of Practice of Data Science[6] at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.[7] She is also the feature editor of the Harvard Data Science Review.[8] She is the host of MIT's Data Science Podcast, "Data Nation" hosted by the MIT Institute for Data Systems and Society. Vittert is a Senior Data Scientist at Decision Desk HQ and their public facing representative[9] for election calls and analysis. Previously, Vittert served as the Mitchell Lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Mathematics and Statistics.[10][11] She is also a Faculty Scholar at the Institute for Public Health[12] and she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University.[10][13] and Harvard University where she is a Senior Fellow.[14] In 2022, Vittert was named one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Professors[15] in the United States by Poets and Quants.

Career

After graduating from MIT with a degree in mathematics and the University of Glasgow’s School of Mathematics and Statistics in 2015, Vittert was named a Mitchell Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the university, specializing in facial recognition and probability.[16][17] Vittert and team have been credited with working on a project to revolutionize the care of children with facial deformities in developing countries.[18]

A frequent contributor[19] on cable news networks, Vittert is an expert on data,[20][21] disinformation,[22] election polling, and the refugee crisis.[23][24] Vittert is the resident weekly "On-Air" statistician for her brother Leland Vittert's program News Nation "On Balance" and a regular[25] op-ed contributor to The Hill. She has appeared on Fox News Channel, PBS, BBC, and other news channels to discuss political issues. Her opinion editorials[26] regularly appear on Fox News and have been featured in U.S. News & World Report,[27] CBS News,[28] Newsweek,[29] The Conversation[30] and as a general contributor to Business Insider.[31] Vittert's investigative article on lottery profits was the number one[32] news trending story in the country. Vittert has a regular column on Fox Business called "A Statistician's Guide to Life."[33]

In 2015, Vittert joined the board of USA for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).[24] Vittert also serves on the board of UNHCR’s Project Hive.[24] In 2020, Vittert was appointed to the International Advisory Council of the United Nations Migration Agency (USA for IOM). Vittert is also on the Investment Committee of Sibley Hospital in Washington D.C. and on the Data and Technology working group for MD Anderson for the Lancet.

Her cooking show, Liberty’s Great American Cookbook, utilizes cooking from Le Cordon Bleu Paris and has aired nationwide in Scotland on STV since 2016.[34][35]

As a feature editor[36] of the Harvard Data Science Review,[37] Vittert is the co-host of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast.

Vittert is an Ambassador[38] for the [39] Royal Statistical Society, a named BBC Expert Woman[40] in Mathematics,[41] and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).[42] Given these positions, she is regularly asked to testify as an expert witness in a multitude of cases. For example, in Spring of 2024, Vittert testified in front of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the possibility of introducing a 32 hour work week[43] into law in the United States.

Education

Vittert earned her B.S. in Mathematics and a Concentration in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[44] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow’s School of Mathematics and Statistics, in addition to a Diplome de Patisserie et Cuisine de Base from Le Cordon Bleu Paris.[44]

Personal life

Vittert was raised in St. Louis, Missouri.[3] She was named one of the "Coolest People in Scotland" in 2018 by The Herald.[45] Her brother, Leland Vittert, is an Emmy-nominated anchor on NewsNation.[46][47] Liberty is married to Moore Capito, an American politician.

References

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  2. ^ "Liberty Vittert". Fox News. 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  3. ^ a b Bowditch, Gillian (2017-09-03). "Miss American Pi: numbers don't need to be puzzling". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  4. ^ "Liberty's Great American Cookbook - S1 - Episode 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  5. ^ Tom Whipple, ed. (2018-04-07). "Gender pay gap: Strange data suggests dozens of companies have cooked the books". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  6. ^ "Faculty". olin.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  7. ^ "Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Washington University in St. Louis". wumath.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  8. ^ "Liberty Vittert". Harvard Data Science Review. 2020-04-10.
  9. ^ Decision Desk HQ's Final 2022 Elections Forecast, retrieved 2023-10-21
  10. ^ a b "TEDxGlasgow | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  11. ^ "Dr. Liberty Vittert - SheSource Expert - Women's Media Center". www.womensmediacenter.com. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  12. ^ "Liberty E. Vittert | Institute for Public Health | Washington University in St. Louis". Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  13. ^ Corner, Speakers. "Liberty Vittert | Speakers Corner". www.speakerscorner.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  14. ^ "Liberty Vittert". Harvard Data Science Review. 2020-04-10.
  15. ^ Bleizeffer, Kristy (2022-03-29). "Poets&Quants For Undergrads - 2021 Best Undergraduate Professors: Liberty Vittert, Washington (Olin)". Poets&Quants for Undergrads. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  16. ^ Tom Whipple, ed. (2017-12-19). "The year in statistics? It had a mean streak". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  17. ^ "Dr. Liberty Vittert - SheSource Expert - Women's Media Center". www.womensmediacenter.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  18. ^ Horne, Marc (2018-05-29). "3D facial mapping helps Smile Train treat children with cleft lips". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  19. ^ "Liberty Vittert | Fox News, CBS Newspath, Fast Company Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  20. ^ "International Contingent of Heavy-Hitting Tech Experts Announced for Belfast Event". Irish Tech News. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  21. ^ Vittert, Liberty (2019-09-09). "Liberty Vittert: Collecting your data is the biggest, baddest, business around. Where's our government?". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  22. ^ Vittert, Liberty (2019-07-20). "Liberty Vittert: FaceApp's sinister genius – Who knew Americans would give their lives away so easily?". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  23. ^ "Liberty E. Vittert | Institute for Public Health | Washington University in St. Louis". Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  24. ^ a b c "Our Team | USA for UNHCR". www.unrefugees.org. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  25. ^ Liberty Vittert, Opinion Contributor (2023-09-26). "AI girlfriends are ruining an entire generation of men". The Hill. Retrieved 2023-10-05. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
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  27. ^ Vittert, Liberty. "US News". US News.
  28. ^ "Current Mega Millions jackpot is $1.6 billion, but where do lottery profits really go?". www.cbsnews.com. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  29. ^ "Recycling all the plastic waste on Earth would mean you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft". Newsweek. 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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  31. ^ "BI General Contributors". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
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  33. ^ "FBN TV Personalities". Fox Business. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  34. ^ "Player". STV. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
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  37. ^ "Harvard Data Science Review". Harvard Data Science Review.
  38. ^ "RSS statistical ambassadors". www.rss.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  39. ^ "STEM Ambassadors". www.rss.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  40. ^ "Liberty Vittert: Mathematics". BBC Academy. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  41. ^ "Expert Women". BBC Academy. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  42. ^ "Individual - isi-web.org". www.isi-web.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  43. ^ "Liberty Vittert | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  44. ^ a b "American Cooking on Scottish TV? Ask the Statistics Expert". Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  45. ^ "Scotland's Cool List continued - from 60 to 21". HeraldScotland. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  46. ^ "Leland Vittert". NewsNation. 2021-10-09. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  47. ^ Post, Bill Husted | The Denver (2009-10-07). "Born lucky, with good hair, and that's no lie". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2019-12-04.

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