Liberty Vittert

Liberty Vittert is an American statistician, political commentator, and host of Liberty’s Great American Cookbook, a cooking show on Scottish Television. Vittert is a Professor of the Practice of Data Science at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the feature editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. 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 for election calls and analysis. Previously, Vittert served as the Mitchell Lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Mathematics and Statistics. She is also a Faculty Scholar at the Institute for Public Health and she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University . In 2022, Vittert was named one of the Top 50 Undergraduate Professors in the United States by Poets and Quants. Experience 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. Vittert and team have been credited with working on a project to revolutionize the care of children with facial deformities in developing countries. A frequent contributor on cable news networks, Vittert is an expert on data, disinformation, election polling, and the refugee crisis. Vittert is the resident weekly On-Air statistician for her brother Leland Vittert's program News Nation "On Balance" and a regular OpEd contributor to the Hill. She has appeared on Fox News Channel, PBS, BBC, and other news channels to discuss political issues. Her opinion editorials regularly appear on Fox News and have been featured in US News, CBS News, Newsweek, The Conversation and as a general contributor to Business Insider. Vittert's investigative article on lottery profits was the number one news trending story in the country. Vittert has a regular column on Fox Business called "A Statistician's Guide to Life".