Personal Data and the US Planned Society
Dan Bouk from Colgate University delivers a talk titled “Personal Data and the US Planned Society.” This talk was included in the session titled “With...
Histories of Data and the Database
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In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot—and not for the first time. An international group of historians will consider the promises, fears, practices, and technologies for recording and transmitting data in the 18th century to the present, including the implications for the lives of citizens and subjects. The conference was held at The Huntington on Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nine Digits: A Biography of the SSN, 1935-1975
Sarah E. Igo from Vanderbilt University delivers a talk titled “Nine Digits: A Biography of the SSN, 1935-1975.” This talk was included in the session...
A Violent Behavior Database, c. 1969-1973: Episodes in the History of Pre-Crime
Rebecca Lemov from Harvard University delivers a talk titled “A Violent Behavior Database, c. 1969-1973: Episodes in the History of Pre-Crime.” This t...
The Value of Genomics Databases
Emmanuel Didier from CNRS and University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “The Value of Genomics Databases.” This talk was included ...
Random Forests and Decision Trees: Machine Learning, Empirical Statistics, and the Challenge of Interpretability
Matthew Jones from Columbia University delivers a talk titled “Random Forests and Decision Trees: Machine Learning, Empirical Statistics, and the Chal...
Welcoming Remarks by Steve Hindle
Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov....
Opening Remarks by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter
Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter, both from University of California, Los Angeles, deliver the opening remarks for “Histories of Data and ...
Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It Came to Be in Early Modern Europe
J. Andrew Mendelsohn from Queen Mary University of London and Charité Berlin delivers a talk titled “Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It...
Narrating the Past with Data: Cameralism, Natural History, and the Visual Language of Statistics in the Nineteenth Century
David Sepkoski from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Narrating the Past with Data: Cameralism, Natural...
Datafication and Visualization of Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Christine von Oertzen from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Datafication and Visualization of Statisti...