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...Caitlin Zaloom Financial prediction provokes intense affect. For bond traders, hedge fund managers, and economic planners, both statistical reasoning and affective discomfort surround professional judgments about the future. This article argues that contemporary financial knowledge is organized...

... modes of visuality at play in border crossing. Subsequently, we analyze two ways of visualizing cross-border migration. The first—medical visualization—works by permeating space with a contrast medium. The second—statistical visualization—works by composing systemic migration patterns out of migration...

... and government officials turned to digital computing to help make decisions under the unavoidable pressures of geopolitical uncertainty. By the 1970s, their data banks of political knowledge and novel statistical tools purported to forecast political unrest long before an unaided human could. These efforts...

...Florence Jany-Catrice; Ilona Delouette; Amélie Lefebvre-Chombart; Laura Nirello Abstract This article analyzes the genesis and consolidation of the “statistical argument” (Desrosières 2008) of mortality during the pandemic. Public health data are approached from the perspective of “biopower” which...

... and statistical classifications and techniques of enumeration to delineate Israel’s efforts to racialize the appropriated space. Historically, the article identifies a boomerang trajectory, beginning with the massive confiscation and Judaization of Palestinian land in the wake of the 1948 war, then extending...

.... These continuously updated statistical dashboards, along with retrospective game analysis and methodical routines of self-adjustment, help gamblers abide swings of chance and avoid falling into the emotionally clouded, fiscally dangerous state of “tilt.” Drawing on interviews with gamblers, observations of online...

... . Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. Ed. New York: Verso. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996 . Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Banks, Cyndi. 1997 . The social construction of statistics...

... appeal and attests to a transforming India (Kaur 2020 ). In the index, the state's calculative apparatus is rendered aesthetic; statistics is reborn as branding. 35 Far from being sidelined by neoliberal entrepreneurship, a new, more assertive central government (which we encounter in other...

... the development of the randomized controlled trial and the application of statistical methods to medical research. In these early studies, antibiotic treatment generated its own limit in the form of drug resistance. At the same time, new ethical and epistemological questions were generated about the method...

...Figure 10 Statistician R. A. Fisher (1937 : 360) puts a bell curve into forward motion (follow the arrow), turning a statistical distribution into a moving wave. ...

... the statistics and results of the trials in place. I refer to this ghosting as the “mortality effect,” which I will elucidate through an analysis of how these can- cer deaths, removed from particulars of individuals, produce paradoxical subject...

..., “Ideology and Television News: A Metaphoric Analy- sis of Political Stories,” Central States Speech Journal 34:3 (1983, pp. 162-71. zlle statistics from this report are reproduced in Fiske, p. 292. a long (indeed ancient) history of figuring one another, and football and war have figured one...

... settling; semi-fictional stories and montages; the blur; and transactional capacities to rethink the ways in which one could articulate newer ways to engage with the city. The blur is difficult to capture or project through a map or a statistic. It is not static and is unclear by definition. Here again...

... callers to the technical notes and methodological documents posted on the agency's website. Mexico's official yearly calculations are made using the nationally representative socioeconomic survey conducted by Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Much in the style...

.... Thomas (ed.), Studies in Communication , Volume I . Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation. Tunstall , J. 1977 The Media Are American: Anglo-American Media in the World . New York Columbia University Press. UNESCO 1979 Statistics on Radio and Television : 1960-1979...

... environmentalists have trusted in their ability to shock and maybe even dismay audiences while bringing data into the home and out of the lab. With more sophisticated computing tools and techniques at their command, twenty-first-century visualizers such as Koblin innovate ways of delivering statistics...

... movement in any conventional sense. In the United States, Bush has managed to hold the moral high ground ever since. The war proceeds for the U.S. Executive on schedule. POINTS TO PONDER The volunteer army has a sobering statistical profile: the proportion of African Americans...

... , translated by Thomas Burger with Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge: MIT Press. Hacking, Ian. 1975 . The emergence of probability: A philosophical study of early ideas about probability,induction, and statistical inference . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Harvey, David. 1982 . The limits...