Episode 119: Making Datasets Talk To Each OtherS V. Subramanian, Prof of Public Health & Geography at Harvard, joins me to talk about why granular data matters and how to fix the…Jul 19, 2021Jul 19, 2021
Episode 118: India’s Data DeficitThe economists Paul Novosad and Sam Asher join me to speak about India’s data deficits going into the pandemic and how to fix it.Jul 14, 2021Jul 14, 2021
Episode 117: Vaccines and Variants Part IIIn this episode, I speak to John Burn-Murdoch, the FT’s data journalist, about new UK data on vaccine effectiveness against B.1.617.2May 31, 2021May 31, 2021
Episode 116: Variants and Vaccines Part IIn this episode, I examine India’s faulty vaccine effectiveness data and look the UK for better real-world numbers.May 28, 2021May 28, 2021
Episode 115: The Variant StoryOn this episode, I get to the bottom of variants, and what B.1.617 in particular means for India.May 20, 2021May 20, 2021
Episode 114: The Road AheadAfter a break, the podcast returns to take stock of India’s horrifying second wave, and thinks about the road ahead.May 15, 2021May 15, 2021
Episode 113: This One YearExactly one year ago, we put out our first episode. For this anniversary episode, I put the data aside and reflect on the year gone by .Mar 25, 2021Mar 25, 2021
Episode 112: Did We Go Too Far With Sero-surveys?Dr Anup Malani who led multiple IDFC sero-surveys across the country joins me to understand how not to over-interpret sero-surveys.Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
Episode 111: Maharashtra, and the Limits of ‘Herd Immunity’How can numbers in Maharashtra rise again, when the first wave was so severe? I ask a range of experts.Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
Episode 110: Kerala, and the Hazards of Declaring Success & FailureWhy did Kerala’s epidemic curve not follow the same trajectory as the rest of the country? The answer could lie in how we define success.Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
