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Christine von Oertzen, Elena Aronova und David Sepkoski über die Geschichte von Big Data in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
Zum ArtikelChristine von Oertzen, Elena Aronova, and David Sepkoski on the history of Big Data in science and societ
Read ArticleFossils during the Middle Ages, 1200–1500
Present-day paleontology in its self-description refers to fossils as “documents from the archives of the Earth” (C. Cohen). By means of those natural
The Sciences of the Archive
"Data" (literally, "the givens") is perhaps the most taken-for-granted word in all the sciences: short and unpretentious, it expresses the simplest an
Historicizing Big Data
Since the late twentieth century, huge databases have become a ubiquitous feature of science, and Big Data has become a buzzword for describing an ost
History and Philosophy of Traceability
The term “traceability” appeared in the agribusiness sector in the midst of the 1990s. According to ISO standard 8402, it is “the ability to find the
Machineries of Data Power: Manual Versus Mechanical Census Compilation in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The advent of punch cards and the electric tabulating machine invented in 1889 is typically described as a key milestone in the development of modern
Anthropometric Data Banks and the Making of the Dimensional Body
What does it take to create an archive of human forms and their interactions with machinery? How does the human body come into being as an engineering
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Statistical Individual in the United States, 1873–1935
How Our Days Became Numbered begins with the struggles that life insurers in the second half of the nineteenth century faced as they made Americans st
Publications, Bouk, D. (2015). How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Doing Things with Data: The Cold War Political Economy of Environmental Archives
The International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957–58) was the largest scientific international venture in the twentieth century. The most important part o