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America By The Numbers
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Author : Emmanuel Didier
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-04-07
America By The Numbers written by Emmanuel Didier and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Social Science categories.
How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool: representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies. Didier shows that their methods were not just simple enumeration; these new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy even as the New Deal shaped the evolution of statistical surveys. Didier explains how statisticians had to become detectives and anthropologists, searching for elements that would help them portray America as a whole. Representative surveys were one of the most effective instruments for their task. He examines pre-Depression survey techniques; the invention of the random sampling method and the development of the Master Sample; and the application of random sampling by employment experts to develop the “Trial Census of Unemployment.”
Yankee Doodle Numbers
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Author : Elissa D. Grodin
language : en
Publisher: Count Your Way Across the U.S.
Release Date : 2007
Yankee Doodle Numbers written by Elissa D. Grodin and has been published by Count Your Way Across the U.S. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Using numbers as its backdrop, this book gives a travelogue of the state's historic moments, symbols, landmarks, and famous people. Included are topics such as lighthouses, railway cars, one-room schoolhouses, and geographic areas"--Provided by publisher.
Visa Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Visa Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with United States categories.
Darwinism Comes To America
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Author : Ronald L. Numbers
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
Darwinism Comes To America written by Ronald L. Numbers and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin's ideas. He provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
A Nation Of Numbers
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Author : Paul A. Scipione
language : en
Publisher: Quirk's Media
Release Date : 2014-12-22
A Nation Of Numbers written by Paul A. Scipione and has been published by Quirk's Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-22 with Advertising categories.
America, the New World, an expanse so big that it begged to be explored settled and tamed. It made sense that a place seemingly so limitless encouraged our obsession with measuring. Maybe it was our Manifest Destiny to be a nation of numbers and the birthplace of marketing research.Why has it taken so long for someone to write the definitive history of a business that now exceeds $24 billion/year in the U.S. ($78+ per person); that now employs more than 150,000 Americans; that interviews nearly 75% of adults each year; whose numbers and statistics are used by virtually 100% of large and medium-sized companies; and whose studies touch all of our lives, every day? Dr. Paul Scipione's A Nation of Numbers solves this puzzling gap by providing lively glimpses of the colorful and often controversial pioneers who made it their life's work to measure and analyze the experiences, preferences and behavior of Americans.Scipione paints the development of the MR field against the backdrop of social, cultural, political, economic and technological events that formed the 20th and early 21st century American mosaic. He identifies the multitude of factors and events came together to make America a nation of numbers and the birthplace of marketing research. He describes three distinct eras in the history of commercial MR: Era 1: the Pioneer era (1900-1950); Era 2: the Survey Era (1950-the late 1990s); and Era 3: the Post-Survey Era (late 1990s-present). Although traditional surveys and focus groups are still used, MR has morphed from an analog to digital world, with new tools in big data and advanced analytics, observation of actual consumer behavior via scanning UPC codes, and advances in the neurosciences.A Nation of Numbers gives readers a fascinating glimpse at the researchers whose ultimate obsession is putting us all under their microscopes.
Foreign Crops And Markets
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Foreign Crops And Markets written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Agriculture categories.
Republic Of Numbers
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Author : David Lindsay Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Republic Of Numbers written by David Lindsay Roberts and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Mathematics categories.
This fascinating narrative history of math in America introduces readers to the diverse and vibrant people behind pivotal moments in the nation's mathematical maturation. Once upon a time in America, few knew or cared about math. In Republic of Numbers, David Lindsay Roberts tells the story of how all that changed, as America transformed into a powerhouse of mathematical thinkers. Covering more than 200 years of American history, Roberts recounts the life stories of twenty-three Americans integral to the evolution of mathematics in this country. Beginning with self-taught Salem mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch's unexpected breakthroughs in ocean navigation and closing with the astounding work Nobel laureate John Nash did on game theory, this book is meant to be read cover to cover. Revealing the marvelous ways in which America became mathematically sophisticated, the book introduces readers to Kelly Miller, the first black man to attend Johns Hopkins, who brilliantly melded mathematics and civil rights activism; Izaak Wirszup, a Polish immigrant who survived the Holocaust and proceeded to change the face of American mathematical education; Grace Hopper, the "Machine Whisperer," who pioneered computer programming; and many other relatively unknown but vital figures. As he brings American history and culture to life, Roberts also explains key mathematical concepts, from the method of least squares, propositional logic, quaternions, and the mean-value theorem to differential equations, non-Euclidean geometry, group theory, statistical mechanics, and Fourier analysis. Republic of Numbers will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how mathematics has intertwined with American history.
Numbers From Nowhere
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Author : David P. Henige
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1998
Numbers From Nowhere written by David P. Henige and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.
In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
Foreign Agriculture Circular
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language : en
Publisher:
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Foreign Agriculture Circular written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Livestock categories.
American Enlightenments
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Author : Caroline Winterer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-25
American Enlightenments written by Caroline Winterer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with History categories.
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary, patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer’s book strips away our modern inventions of the American national past, exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more recent times.