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Anecdotal insights illustrate how increased computing power transformed demographic analysis, affecting data integrity.
This anecdote discusses the relationship of changes in computer power to demographic analysis over the past 50 years, based onmy work as a demographer in that time. Increases in processing power, and the growing complexity of software that this increased power enabled, opened new opportunities for researchers, but the greater ease of computing sometimes led them to be sloppy. Increase in computing power and development in statistics also led to tradeoffs between data usefulness and confidentiality.
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