Dan Bouk researches the history of bureaucracies, quantification, and other things shrouded in cloaks of boringness. He studied computational mathematics as an undergraduate, before earning a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.
Books in order of publication:
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual – 2015
Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them – 2023
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