Histories of Data and the Database

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.

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.

Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter, both from University of California, Los Angeles, deliver the opening remarks for “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington on Nov. 18–19, 2016.