Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future

Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future

Jer Thorp's analysis of the word "data" in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with "data," we find not only its…

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