
Rebecca Lemov from Harvard University delivers a talk titled “A Violent Behavior Database, c. 1969-1973: Episodes in the History of Pre-Crime.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 19, 2016
38 min

Matthew Jones from Columbia University delivers a talk titled “Random Forests and Decision Trees: Machine Learning, Empirical Statistics, and the Challenge of Interpretability.” This talk was included in the session titled “Methods and Ambiguities in the Contemporary Age.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 19, 2016
39 min

Dan Bouk from Colgate University delivers a talk titled “Personal Data and the US Planned Society.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 19, 2016
42 min

Emmanuel Didier from CNRS and University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “The Value of Genomics Databases.” This talk was included in the session titled “Methods and Ambiguities in the Contemporary Age.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 19, 2016
34 min

Sarah E. Igo from Vanderbilt University delivers a talk titled “Nine Digits: A Biography of the SSN, 1935-1975.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 19, 2016
38 min

David Sepkoski from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Narrating the Past with Data: Cameralism, Natural History, and the Visual Language of Statistics in the Nineteenth Century.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 18, 2016
37 min

Soraya de Chadarevian from University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “Things and Data in Recent Biology.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 18, 2016
35 min

Theodore M. Porter from University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “Cases as Data in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 18, 2016
43 min

J. Andrew Mendelsohn from Queen Mary University of London and Charité Berlin delivers a talk titled “Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It Came to Be in Early Modern Europe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 18, 2016
35 min

Staffan Müller-Wille from University of Exeter delivers a talk titled “Data Selection and Re-Use in Franz Boas’ Anthropometric Studies.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.”
Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Nov 18, 2016
40 min
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