danah boyd with Ron S. Jarmin

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By any metric, a lot was going on in 2020, and looking back at it now, the census may have seemed like a fairly brief blip. Behind the scenes, however, the 2020 census was more than a decade in the making. Implementing phone and online responses for the first time and navigating countless real-time developments, this iteration required nearly a quarter of a million temporary workers to collect data about the American public. Data that would in turn be used to help determine years of federal funding and political power. In many ways, the US census is one of the government’s largest non-wartime operations and the world’s oldest, biggest data-making endeavors – and researcher and educator danah boyd has dug deep into how 2020’s census was like none that had come before it. In her newest book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, boyd explores what it really took for the 2020 Census Bureau to pull it all off. With rare insid

Who

• Ron S. JarminAuthor
• Danah BoydAuthor
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The book

• Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US CensusDanah Boyd

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Town Hall Seattle

1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

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