<b>Featured Review:</b> How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

It’s 7.30 am when my alarm wakes me up and I am greeted by my notifications. While eating breakfast, I watch videos YouTube recommends to me: sometimes news stories, sometimes my guilty pleasure of a new “Say Yes to the Dress” clip. On my way to campus, I play my daylist, a curated playlist from Spotify based on what I normally listen to on a given weekday and time. Apparently, as I write this, “Nostalgia 2010s Tuesday Afternoon” is waiting for me. In the classroom, I teach students how to load in data, visualize it, and run a regression.

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SIAM Review
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2025-05-08
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https://doi.org/10.1137/24m1635521
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Data Analysis and Archiving
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Featured Review: How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

Rachel Roca
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Data Analysis and Archiving
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Featured Review: How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

Rachel Roca
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It’s 7.30 am when my alarm wakes me up and I am greeted by my notifications. While eating breakfast, I watch videos YouTube recommends to me: sometimes news stories, sometimes my guilty pleasure of a new “Say Yes to the Dress” clip. On my way to campus, I play my daylist, a curated playlist from Spotify based on what I normally listen to on a given weekday and time. Apparently, as I write this, “Nostalgia 2010s Tuesday Afternoon” is waiting for me. In the classroom, I teach students how to load in data, visualize it, and run a regression.

SIAM ReviewVol. 67(2)
Michigan State University (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 87%
Data Analysis and Archiving
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