The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.