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A short history of data
How the evolution of data over centuries has shaped today’s world.
We live in a world where data is everywhere – informing if not governing our lives. But this wealth of data didn’t just turn up overnight. Tim Harford talks to academics Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, whose new book How Data Happened aims to explain how the world we know today has been shaped by not just technological developments but battles around how emerging sources of data should be utilised.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?
