Imagine you’ve been working in the same job for the same organization for your entire career, through all the ups and downs, and suddenly you find yourself in the midst of your best year ever. That’s what happened to basketball legend Sue Bird in 2018, as she led the Seattle Storm to the WNBA title. On this episode of our Numbers Geek podcast, we talk with Sue Bird about the numbers behind her record season, hear how she uses numbers to understand the game, and challenge her to solve a new "box score mystery" involving one of her most legendary games.

Imagine you&rsquo;ve been working in the same job for the same organization for your entire career, through all the ups and downs, and suddenly you find yourself in the midst of your best year ever. That&rsquo;s what happened to basketball legend Sue Bird in 2018, as she led the Seattle Storm to the WNBA title. On this episode of our Numbers Geek podcast, we talk with Sue Bird about the numbers behind her record season, hear how she uses numbers to understand the game, and challenge her to solve a new "box score mystery" involving one of her most legendary games.

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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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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