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A short history of data
How the evolution of data over centuries has shaped today鈥檚 world.
We live in a world where data is everywhere 鈥� informing if not governing our lives. But this wealth of data didn鈥檛 just turn up overnight. Tim Harford talks to academics Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, whose new book How Data Happened aims to explain how the world we know today has been shaped by not just technological developments but battles around how emerging sources of data should be utilised.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Jon Bithrey
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
(Data futuristic server room. Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty images)
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