Can Steve Ballmer identify a famous basketball game purely by the numbers? Can you? That's our fun and enlightening challenge on this new episode of the Numbers Geek podcast, featuring the former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the L.A. Clippers. With cameos by Stephen A. Smith, Steve Kerr and Sue Bird. We’ve given Steve multiple pages of statistics from a specific legendary NBA game -- a box score showing the scoring by quarter plus a bunch of other numbers about the game and players. But the stats we’ve given him are missing some very important details. We’ve removed all references to the teams and players, and taken away everything except the numbers. Follow along with Steve to see if you can figure it out before he does. 

Can Steve Ballmer identify a famous basketball game purely by the numbers? Can you? That's our fun and enlightening challenge on this new episode of the Numbers Geek podcast, featuring the former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the L.A. Clippers. With cameos by Stephen A. Smith, Steve Kerr and Sue Bird. We&rsquo;ve given Steve multiple pages of statistics from a specific legendary NBA game -- a box score showing the scoring by quarter plus a bunch of other numbers about the game and players. But the stats we&rsquo;ve given him are missing some very important details. We&rsquo;ve removed all references to the teams and players, and taken away everything except the numbers. Follow along with Steve to see if you can figure it out before he does.&nbsp;

Numbers Geek is the podcast where we use numbers and data to make sense of the world.  We take on issues from education to politics to basketball and beyond — with leaders in business, tech and entertainment. Our resident Numbers Geek is Steve Ballmer,  the former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the L.A. Clippers.  Numbers Geek is a GeekWire podcast, produced in partnership with USAFacts, the nonprofit data initiative founded by Ballmer.

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Basketball Box Score Mystery

If GDP and the stock market don't fully capture the economic health of the U.S. and its citizens, what numbers should we be watching? What are the key performance indicators for the country, and the most important numbers for the future of the world? Those are the central questions on this final episode of Numbers Geek, the podcast that GeekWire has produced in partnership with Steve Ballmer and USAFacts, the former Microsoft CEO's non-partisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative. We'll hear a variety of perspectives, starting with the data-driven presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, conservative author and CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and many more, including audience submissions. Thanks for listening to Numbers Geek!

If GDP and the stock market don't fully capture the economic health of the U.S. and its citizens, what numbers should we be watching? What are the key performance indicators for the country, and the most important numbers for the future of the world? Those are the central questions on this final episode of Numbers Geek, the podcast that GeekWire has produced in partnership with Steve Ballmer and <a href="https://usafacts.org/">USAFacts</a>, the former Microsoft CEO's non-partisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative. We'll hear a variety of perspectives, starting with the data-driven presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, conservative author and CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and many more, including audience submissions. Thanks for listening to Numbers Geek!

Finale: Most Important Numbers in the World

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's non-partisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative, USAFacts, today is publishing its third annual report on U.S. local, state and federal government — compiling and analyzing the government's own data to update Americans on the state of the country in much the same way as a business reports to its shareholders. In short, it's a picture of America in numbers.

On this episode of our Numbers Geek podcast, a partnership between GeekWire and USAFacts, Steve Ballmer joins us to look at that picture, discussing highlights from the USAFacts 2019 Annual Report. Download the annual report here: https://annualreport.usafacts.org/

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's non-partisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative, <a href="https://usafacts.org/">USAFacts</a>, today is publishing <a href="https://annualreport.usafacts.org/">its third annual report on U.S. local, state and federal government</a> &mdash; compiling and analyzing the government's own data to update Americans on the state of the country in much the same way as a business reports to its shareholders. In short, it's a picture of America in numbers.
On this episode of <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/numbersgeek/">our Numbers Geek podcast</a>, a partnership between GeekWire and USAFacts, Steve Ballmer joins us to look at that picture, discussing highlights from the <a href="https://annualreport.usafacts.org/">USAFacts 2019 Annual Report</a>. Download the annual report here: <a href="https://annualreport.usafacts.org/">https://annualreport.usafacts.org/</a>

A picture of America in numbers

People from across the political spectrum use a lot of different words to answer the question of what happened to the middle class: Hollowed out, wiped out, disappearing, declining, doesn't exist anymore. But what's really happening to the middle class? What do the numbers say? We answer that question on this episode of Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer. Learn more at usafacts.org and find more episodes at geekwire.com/numbersgeek.

People from across the political spectrum use a lot of different words to answer the question of what happened to the middle class: Hollowed out, wiped out, disappearing, declining, doesn't exist anymore. But&nbsp;what's really happening to the middle class? What do the numbers say? We answer that question on this episode of Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer. Learn more at usafacts.org and find more episodes at geekwire.com/numbersgeek.

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