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A History of Data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

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A Galton's Regression Approach to Characterizing Groups of People

Ketlay was a cousin of Charles Darwin and looked at how different societies produce great people. He came to an insight about the question around why is it that when parents have children they're offspring often aren't as awesome as they are. In pursuit of this policy, he comes to make central, a fundamental way of understanding how to or more quantities relate. And we talked quite a bit about how did they go about getting their hands on some data, and then imposing on a particular worldview.

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