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Democracy's data : the hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them / Dan Bouk.
Lippincott Library HA181 .B58 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouk, Dan, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Data mining.
- Statistics--Social aspects.
- Statistics.
- Census takers (Persons).
- Census.
- United States--Census.
- United States.
- United States--Census, 1940.
- Genre:
- Census data.
- History.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : MCD ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
- Summary:
- "A lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 0. Stories in the Data
- 1. The Question Men
- 2. Names and Negotiations
- 3. Partiers
- 4. Counting with Friends
- 5. Silences and White Supremacy
- 6. Uncle Sam V. Senator Tobey
- 7. The Inventory and the Arsenal
- 8. The Data's Depths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Monahan Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780374602543
- 0374602549
- OCLC:
- 1313482074
- Publisher Number:
- 99991472352
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