Democracy's Data

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data. The census isn’t just a data-collection process; it’s a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them. In Democracy’s Data , the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what