Charles Wheelan, a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College and author of Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, offers a humorous look at the statistical underpinnings of life and the importance of statistics in understanding the world. Dr. Wheelan discusses the era of “big data”, the line between “customized and creepy”, and offers his take on the most detrimental and positive uses of statistics.

The Take 15 Series is a series of short interviews with leading practitioners on timely topics focused on the investment profession.