Democracys Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them Bouk Dan
Democracys Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them Bouk Dan From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. Behind every neat grid of numbers…
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Democracys Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them Bouk Dan
From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories--you just have to know how to read them.In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data.The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy.
He introduces us to the men and women employed as census takers, bringing us with them as they go door to door, recording the lives of their neighbors. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of cultural negotiation and political struggle. He takes us into the makeshift halls of the Census Bureau, where hundreds of civil servants, not to mention machines, labored with pencil and paper to
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