Hollerith, on the other hand, made his name building machines to handle a gargantuan data-processing task: the analysis of the results of the United States' census.When the first American census took place in 1790, tabulating the data it collected took nine months.
The top firms tend to reinforce this impression by chasing all sorts of business, from risk consulting to merger advice anything rather than tabulating a company's books.
The October parliamentary election was conducted under a dual system of selecting representatives: half of the 450 seats were allocated on the basis of proportional representation (a minimum of 5% of the popular vote was required for parties to acquire seats) and half in single-mandate constituencies on first-past-the-post tabulating.
Ptolemy (c. 100 ce) undertook one of the first quantitative studies of the refraction of light as it passes from one transparent medium to another, tabulating pairs of angles of incidence and transmission for combinations of several media.
The Russian Far East was already tabulating its results in the day's Presidential election.
Galenson did a simple economic analysis, tabulating the prices paid at auction for paintings by Picasso and Cézanne with the ages at which they created those works.
Talk story tabulating some of the synonyms which the German GHQ and press have found for "retreat," and "defeat".
The disarranged piles melded into a wallpaper of ludicrous font and slashes of pink, brown, and yellow flesh; though the job was chiefly a matter of inventorying characteristics, tabulating spurts and lashings, Kromer couldn't get through the tapes fast enough.
Since June , 1957 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been monitoring America's health habits, tabulating things like whether we smoke, drink, or sit around all day, and how many of us visit our doctors regularly and take our medications at the prescribed times.
The Russian Far East was already tabulating its results in the day's… A couple of days ago, thirty-six Sovimmigrantsants were arrested in New York for plotting to bilk health-insurance companies out of a quarter of a… On December 24 , 2011 Mikhail Prokhorov — banking and mining billionaire, N.B.A. team owner, international playboy, and Russia's third-richest man — set out to be among the people.
As the title suggests, Kromer spends much of his time reviewing porn tapes for Sex Machines' newsletter — "inventorying characteristics, tabulating spurts and lashes".
