Dan Bouk

Dan Bouk, a Data & Society affiliate, is the author of Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them and How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. He teaches history at Colgate University and has been a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Data & Society. He is currently writing The Subway Job, about a successful struggle to invest in public goods and make both data and transit more accessible in New York City.