Antebellum Data Journalism : Or, How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln - ProPublica
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It’s easy to think of #data_journalism as a modern invention. With all the hype, a casual reader might assume that it was invented sometime during the 2012 presidential campaign. Better-informed observers can push the start date back a few decades, noting with self-satisfaction that Philip Meyer did his pioneering work during the Detroit riots in the late 1960s. Some go back even further, archly telling the tale of Election Night 1952, when a UNIVAC computer used its thousands of vacuum tubes to predict the presidential election within four electoral votes.
But all of these estimates are wrong – in fact, they’re off by centuries. The real history of data journalism pre-dates newspapers, and traces the history of news itself.
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley
#histoire via @opironet (une histoire de représentants qui se faisaient rembourser des frais de transports sans commune mesure avec leurs frais réels, puisqu’on ne se déplaçait plus à cheval à foin mais en cheval à vapeur)