This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. Credit: Michael Hicks (CC BY 2.0) ...

The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s ...

A mind-numbingly boring, error-prone exercise led to the birth of IBM, nearly 125 years ago, and launched America's computing industry.

Photos Show How Workers Crunched Census Data in 1940. By Rebecca Onion. July 10, ... The National Archives has a great Flickr set chronicling the taking and processing of the 1940 Census.

NEW DELHI: Final population data from Census 2027 may be available as early as the end of 2027, thanks to the 'digital' mode being introduced for capturing and processing datasets in the upcoming ...

Galka took a standard map projection, then readjusted the size of each continent to match the percentage of the global population that lives there. The GIF shows what that looked like in 1800 ...

The processing centre will create 1,200 new jobs. The 1,600 tonnes of paper created will be stored until the end of 2002 and will then be recycled. The processing of data will be complete by March ...

For months, COVID-19 and interference by Trump officials delayed the release of new census demographic data used to redraw voting districts, forcing some state and local elections to be pushed back.

How the US census led to the first data processing company 125 years ago And kickstarted America’s computing industry. David Lindsey Roberts, The Conversation - Jan 2, 2022 11:45 am UTC.