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"The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women’s history, as well as the histories of many individual disciplines, to name just a few of the areas covered by essays in this volume. But the history of data is more than just the sum of its parts. It provides an emerging new rubric for considering the impact of changes in cultures of information in the sciences in the longue durée, and an…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2017University of Chicago Press · 304 pages · 9780226538778
Science, historyBig dataHistoryComputer scienceData curationInformation technologyScienceSocial aspects