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Data
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When Will the Census Stop Collecting Race Data?
In a nation where we're increasingly identifying as "mixed race," categories have to stop meaning anything at some point.
From Appearance to Identity: How Census Data Collection Changed Race in America
What happens when you let everyone self-identify?
The Background on Your Bytes
Provenance software promises to track down digital info’s secrets — in the name of trust.
In ‘Open Government Data,’ What’s Really Open?
In parsing the meaning of “open government,” citizens weigh the availability of information against the transparency of creating it. It’s a rare grammar debate that affects the course of democracy.
Protein Data Bank Deposits Are Life’s Building Blocks
A four-decade project to catalog the basic structures used to build life pays dividends for everything from new drugs to Bjork’s performances.
EarthScope: A Seismic Shift in Data Gathering
Two hundred years after the New Madrid quake rocked the U.S., Earthscope, a traveling scan of what lies underneath North America, reveals more about earthquakes and volcanoes.
Solving Eco-challenges With Today’s Data
A new academic center at the University of Maryland promises to take undervalued research and synthesize it into answers for pressing environmental challenges.
U.S. Seeking LGBT Health Data in Future Surveys
In a little remarked upon sign of the times, U.S. government health surveys will start asking Americans to check a box about their sexual orientation in 2013.
Digital Disappearance
Never has the world historical and cultural record been more accessible — or more fragile.