Dan Bouk, a Data & Society affiliate, researches the history of bureaucracies, quantification, and other modern things shrouded in cloaks of boringness. As a D&S fellow, he published House Arrest: How An Automated Algorithm Constrained Congress for a Century, and co-authored A Primer on Powerful Numbers with Kevin Ackermann and danah boyd. Bouk is the author of the books How Our Days Became Numbered (Chicago, 2015) and Democracy’s Data (MCDxFSG, 2022). He is currently at work on a history of budgets, data, expertise, and democracy in New York City.