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    Oliver Roeder is the FT's senior data journalist in the US. Before joining the FT, he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University studying artificial intelligence and a senior features writer and puzzle editor at FiveThirtyEight. Roeder holds a PhD in economics with a focus on game theory and is the author of "Seven Games: A Human History."

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