Digital Transformation: Conjuring Data from Nothing
Date: September, 2017 “Who gave you this information?” Joe, the employee With a hint of fear and confusion in the tone of his voice, my colleague, Joe, came up to me and asked, “Who gave you this information?”. The information that Joe collects is difficult to obtain, relies heavily...
Tycho Brahe and the Invention of Data
By Jeff Lundy There are many books about the early history of science. There are even several histories of statistics. Yet, I’ve not seen a social history exclusively devoted to data; even though, without data, statistics could not even exist. In this blog post, I’m going to argue that...