Cool, especially since the census is one of the main reasons why we have computers at all.
I went to the Computer History Museum a few months back, and when we were looking through the origins of the modern computer, a lot of it traces back to census needs: we needed to automate the counting of large quantities of uniformly formatted data, so we used punchcards to tally up the data.
Fast forward to 2012, and the census is now getting an API. Weird how that works.
I went to the Computer History Museum a few months back, and when we were looking through the origins of the modern computer, a lot of it traces back to census needs: we needed to automate the counting of large quantities of uniformly formatted data, so we used punchcards to tally up the data.
Fast forward to 2012, and the census is now getting an API. Weird how that works.