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How corporations got all your data
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The History of Data
This is when the word statistics enters the English language. Is this also the period in which the concept of data as we understand it now was really born? There's two reasons. One is that there had just been enormous success in a whole series of new mathematical tools for understanding the celestial world, the stars and these sorts of things. The second facet is that it was a sort of turning point in the systematic collection of information often in quantified form.
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