Includes bibliographical references and index.

Data before the fact / Daniel Rosenberg -- Procrustean Marxism and subjective rigor : early modern arithmetic and its readers / Travis D. Williams -- From measuring desire to quantifying expectations : a late nineteenth-century effort to marry economic theory and data / Kevin R. Brine and Mary Poovey -- Where is that moon, anyway? : the problem of interpreting historical solar eclipse observations / Matthew Stanley -- Facts and FACTS : abolitionists' database innovations / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Paper as passion : Niklas Luhmann and his card index / Markus Krajewski -- Dataveillance & countervailance / Rita Raley -- Data bite man : the work of sustaining a long-term study / David Ribes and Steven J. Jackson.