Sum of Us
a history of the uk in data
$73.72
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2025
Summary
Sum of Us: How Data Shapes Our Understanding of Ourselves and Our History
What has data ever done for us?
Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad Data, explores the rich history of the times the UK has counted itself - from the revolutionary first census of 1801 to modern worries over technological surveillance.
Condensing a whole society into numbers brought hidden problems to light:…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349129020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349129029 |
| Author: | Georgina Sturge |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 629g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 162mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Georgina Sturge
Georgina Sturge is a Statistician at the House of Commons Library. Prior to working at Parliament, she trained in quantitative public policy analysis at the United Nations University and Maastricht University Graduate School of Governance. She has worked in global development, international migration, social security, poverty and inequality. She is a member of the Office for National Statistics’ expert advisory group on population and migration statistics and an advisor to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory. Her first book was Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of us Get Misled by Numbers.
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