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  • The New New Thing by Michael Lewis

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    On the line that asked him to state his occupation, he did not know what to write. There was no name for what he did. Searcher? He couldn’t very well put that down. For that matter, there is no name for what he’s looking for, which, typically, is a technology, or an idea, on the…

  • Fighting Epidemics with Data, William Farr, & The Ghost Map

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    Victorian scientists would have immediately recognized many of the core categories of data assembled by epidemiologists working on Covid-19: infections, deaths, locations and so on. Today’s vital statisticians obviously have access to a wider pool of information — antibody-test results, comorbidities of victims, even different genetic strains of the virus — than Farr was able…