LIVE · 1 VOLUME IN PROGRESS · UPDATED 23 MAY 2026
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One Hundred
Years
of —
Five volumes. Fifty datasets.
Each one a question history can finally answer.
✦ One dataset per entry — at least a century of depth
✦ Serious ML — pre-computed, documented, validated
✦ Open data · MIT license · No ads · No paywall
✦ Every finding labeled: HIGH CONFIDENCE · CANDIDATE · SPECULATIVE
Volumes planned
5
Total entries
50
Entries live now
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The Volumes · Five Themes · Fifty Entries Each volume a distinct register · The formula never changes
Vol. I In Progress · 10 of 10 live
The Reckoning
A century of American institutional failure. The Color Line, The Untreated, Dead Air, The Red Line, The Trigger. The data does not take sides. It keeps score.
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Vol. II Announced
The Strange
A century of things that don't fit. Mass hysteria, classified documents, anomalous signals, ghost geographies. Serious methodology. Uncanny data.
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Vol. III Announced
The Self
Personal scale. Every entry is about the visitor. Your name. Your neighborhood. Your ancestors. Your birth year's cultural fingerprint.
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Vol. IV Planned
The Future
The first hundred years of the internet. A century of climate forcing. The hundred-year arc of antibiotic resistance. Same methodology. Forward-facing questions.
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Vol. V Planned
The Beautiful
A century of American aesthetic culture as data. Color in painting. Sentiment in music. Beauty standards in names. Architecture mapped against economic conditions.
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