# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-o-neil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:27:14.579Z

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name: "Cathy O'Neil"
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description: "Catherine Helen O'Neil is an American mathematician, data scientist, and author. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller Weapons of Math Destruction, and opinion columns in Bloomberg View. O'Neil was active in the Occupy movement."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump