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Hollerith punch card
Data is a hugely profitable commodity - if you know how to process it. Tim Harford tells the story of Herman Hollerith, and how his 19th-century machine for processing census data laid the foundations for some of the wor...
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Hollerith punch card is an episode from 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy by BBC. Data is a hugely profitable commodity - if you know how to process it. Tim Harford tells the story of Herman Hollerith, and how his 19th-century machine...
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Published Dec 2, 2019, 9:53 long, audio available.
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