"Raw data" is an oxymoron

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Bibliographic Details
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
SeriesInfrastructures series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262312325
Physical Description1 online zdroj (vi, 182 p., [10] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Data before the fact / Daniel Rosenberg
  • Procrustean Marxism and subjective rigor : early modern arithmetic and its readers / Travis D. Williams
  • From measuring desire to quantifying expectations : a late nineteenth-century effort to marry economic theory and data / Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey
  • Where is that moon, anyway? : the problem of interpreting historical solar eclipse observations / Matthew Stanley
  • Facts and FACTS : abolitionists' database innovations / Ellen Gruber Garvey
  • Paper as passion : Niklas Luhmann and his card index / Markus Krajewski
  • Dataveillance & countervailance / Rita Raley
  • Data bite man : the work of sustaining a long-term study / David Ribes and Steven J. Jackson.