rpois | 1 year ago | on: The Imperial Origins of Big Data
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Does this formalization process include giving it the answer it should try to prove?
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What do you think the article omits/gets wrong about the story, if anything?
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> The term statistics is ultimately derived from the Neo-Latin statisticum collegium ("council of state") and the Italian word statista ("statesman" or "politician"). The German Statistik, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state, signifying the "science of state" (then called political arithmetic in English).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_statistics#Etymolog...