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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence

by Vivek Kale
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
442 pages
21h 44m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, an engineer named Herman Hollerith invented a calculat-
ing machine that sorted cards by punched holes. Any kind of data could be recorded by punching
holes according to a standard procedure, and then the data could be analyzed statistically to provide
a picture of the overall results. Potential customers for this device were organizations, such as gov-
ernment agencies, railroads, and retail establishments, that needed a way of managing and manipu-
lating large amounts of information. The U.S. Census Bureau, for example, saw the potential of this
device for handling its national data collection ...
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