Tag: History
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The first big data contest in the US: the 1890 Census
The surprising story of how a clerk in the census office would use his brother-in-law’s textile machine to revolutionize data analysis – and lay the groundwork for the entire technology industry.
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“I am not a racist” is not the same as “there is no racism”
For the longest time, I thought about racism in an individual context: if I didn’t express racist feelings, or see them expressed, it was hard to imagine that “racism” was widespread, or if it was real, that it was my responsibility to address it. But “I am not racist” can be true and “racism is widespread and…