The next digital transition: The US Census

The bureau plans to invite all Americans to answer questions online for the next decennial census in 2020.

222 years of the U.S. Census: paper to punch cards, UNIVAC to CD-ROM … to web?

The U.S. Census Bureau has released an infographic in honor of Independence Day. The interesting part from a Silicon Valley perspective? The technology used to collect and analyze the data.

The first census was taken in 1790 with paper and …

Insane growth: Google+ reaches 10M total users

Google+, the new social network from Google, will reach 10 million users today, according to a rather unorthodox study conducted by Paul Allen of Ancestry.com.

The study is based on U.S. Census data about surname-popularity (the popularity of a person’s …