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• The Open Data Movement — What "Free Data" Actually Promises, and Who Keeps It
  Government budgets, satellite imagery, census tables, museum collections: an entire generation of public data sits openly on the web. What makes data genuinely "open", who maintains it when nobody is paid, and how to tell a real source from a graveyard.
• How Countries Count Their People — Census, Sampling and the Numbers Behind the Numbers
  Every ranking you have ever argued about online — population, GDP, literacy — ultimately traces back to someone knocking on a door, or deciding not to. The census is one of humanity's oldest technologies of government, and one of the few whose errors are inherited by every statistic built on top.