Perhaps it would be of interest to the ongoing discussion about NSA accumulation of phone use metadata to see how some math gets mixed with metadata in a relatively simple universe. Professor Kieran Healy does just that (found via memeorandum) using a database of 256 names of socially active Bostonians from 1775. Based only on identification of individuals with seven suspected subversive groups, … [Continued at NaPP]
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