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  2. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    In the early 19th century, collection intensified, and the meaning of "statistics" broadened to include the discipline concerned with the collection, summary, and analysis of data. Today, data is collected and statistics are computed and widely distributed in government, business, most of the sciences and sports, and even for many pastimes.

  3. Category:1900s neologisms - Wikipedia

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  4. Data Science and Predictive Analytics - Wikipedia

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    The textbook is globally available in print (hardcover and softcover) and electronic formats (PDF and EPub) in many college and university libraries [9] and has been used for data science, computational statistics, and analytics classes at various institutions. [10]

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.

  6. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    Information-related activities did not come up with the Information Revolution. They existed, in one form or the other, in all human societies, and eventually developed into institutions, such as the Platonic Academy , Aristotle 's Peripatetic school in the Lyceum , the Musaeum and the Library of Alexandria , or the schools of Babylonian ...

  7. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...

  8. List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

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    Popular Compendium of Useful Information (1901) a one volume reference work edited by Charles Smith Morris. Twentieth Century Cyclopedia of Useful Information (1901) World Encyclopaedia (1901) Golden Treasury of Useful Information (1902) Worlds Best Information and How to Use It (1902) Home Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge (1902)

  9. Data analysis - Wikipedia

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    The data is necessary as inputs to the analysis, which is specified based upon the requirements of those directing the analytics (or customers, who will use the finished product of the analysis). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The general type of entity upon which the data will be collected is referred to as an experimental unit (e.g., a person or population of ...