Index

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   vii

Introduction   1
Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson

Color Plates 
Daniel Rosenberg, Thomas Augst, Ann Fabian, Jimena Canales, Lisa Lynch, Lisa Gitelman,
Paul E. Ceruzzi, Lev Manovich, Jeremy Douglass, William Huber, Vikas Mouli  

    1 Data before the Fact   15
      Daniel Rosenberg

    2 Procrustean Marxism and Subjective Rigor: Early Modern Arithmetic and Its 
      Readers     41
      Travis D. Williams

    3 From Measuring Desire to Quantifying Expectations: A Late Nineteenth-
      Century Effort to Marry Economic Theory and Data   61
      Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey

    4 Where Is That Moon, Anyway? The Problem of Interpreting Historical Solar 
      Eclipse Observations    77
      Matthew Stanley

    5 "facts and FACTS": Abolitionists' Database Innovations   89
      Ellen Gruber Garvey

    6 Paper as Passion: Niklas Luhmann and His Card Index   103
      Markus Krajewski

    7 Dataveillance and Countervailance 121
      Rita Raley

    8 Data Bite Man: The Work of Sustaining a Long-Term Study   147
      David Ribes and Steven J. Jackson

      Data Flakes: An Afterword to "Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron   167
      Geoffrey C. Bowker

      List of Contributors   173

      Index   179