A review by sean_mann
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk

4.0

Could have been 5 stars, but some chapters were dry/too boring. This was probably partially because I listened to the audio book and there were sections where they read out large numbers over and over which would have been easier to zoom by as written text.

I really liked how the author personalized the data in the census. Again, some of the random individuals from the census were pretty boring people to spend a chapter on, but it was neat to see so much information about people from the 1940s. It also enlightened me a lot about the limits of data collection/analysis, and about the more mundane yet very important parts of democracy.