In April 2020, the United States embarked on the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least three millennia and now spans the globe. In The Sum of the People, data scientist Andrew Whitby traces the remarkable history of the census. Marvels of democracy, instruments of exclusion, and, at worst, tools of tyranny and genocide, censuses have always profoundly shaped the societies we've built.
For live-only captions: streamtext.net/player?event=DCTheSumofthePeople
- The Sum of the People: How the Census has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age ( Download)
- The Sum of the People: How the Census Has… by Andrew Whitby · Audiobook preview ( Download)
- Sum Of The People, by Andrew Whitby: on the most famous census ( Download)
- Sum Of The People, by Andrew Whitby: on Big Data ( Download)
- Why the Most Famous Census Probably Never Happened ( Download)
- Andrew Whitby: A brief history of the census, from Moses to 2020 ( Download)
- Meet The Author: Andrew Whitby ( Download)
- The Simple Question that Stumped Everyone Except Marilyn vos Savant ( Download)
- How Women's Perfect Body Types Changed Throughout History ( Download)
- The History of Halloween ( Download)
- How to spot a Census scheme ( Download)
- The Gilded Age Families Who Disappeared (Documentary) ( Download)
- Why the Middle East’s Borders Guarantee Forever Wars ( Download)
- Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443 ( Download)
- NO ONE Expected To See THIS! The Find That Changed the World of Archeology ( Download)
