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In Depth
Transformational Education > New technologies
Students and calculating machines
Transcript
The whole subject of statistics, you know, has changed drastically since World War II. But there—Well, a pretty good fraction of it was on time series analysis, trends, seasonal, cyclical and random. Those were the four things that cause—I remembered that. And we had a so-called 40-hour problem, and it really was, in which we had to get the trend, seasonal and cyclical, for some cigarette company. And grinding it out on these [...]
Q: Hollerith calculators.
Well, they were hand-operated-via-crank calculators. And it really did take 40 hours to work this thing through. It would take you a minute today on the computer once you had the data. So, conventional, yes, and not well liked either.