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Volume 48, Issue 5

November 2018

ISSN 1939-1811

EISSN 1939-182X

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Special Issue: Histories of Data and the Database

Introduction: Scrutinizing the Data World

Soraya de Chadarevian; Theodore M. Porter

Data as Word

Daniel Rosenberg

Datafication and Spatial Visualization in Nineteenth-Century Census Statistics

Christine Von Oertzen

Data in Time: Statistics, Natural History, and the Visualization of Temporal Data

David Sepkoski

Observations, Narrative, and Data in Nineteenth-Century Asylum Medicine

Theodore M. Porter

Making and Unmaking Populations

Staffan Müller-Wille

Me and My Data

Sarah E. Igo

The National Data Center and the Rise of the Data Double

Dan Bouk

An Episode in the History of PreCrime

Rebecca Lemov

Things and Data in Recent Biology

Soraya de Chadarevian

Open-Access Genomic Databases: A Profit-Making Tool?

Emmanuel Didier

How We Became Instrumentalists (Again): Data Positivism since World War II

Matthew L. Jones

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