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Using big data to find Paul Revere



Not ringing related, other than the fact that PR was a ringer. Someone has used archival/historian info to show how an 18th century equivalent of the NSA could have picked out PR as a person of interest. Contains annoying jokey fake olde language* and discussion of matrices.
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/

*not in any way as clever as Chaucer Hath a Blog
http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/