He means the original recordings. There were no digital recordings in 1880. Different apparatus, different methods. That’s the point

They can speak for themselves, you and I don't really know what they want, or what they think counts as "raw" data.

	▲	tonymet 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Regardless, ascii encoding isn’t raw data. You’re making software engineer assumptions. Statistical noise is introduced 4-5 steps before the data is recorded digitally. Even after it’s digitized, more noise is introduced through recording errors and normalization. To understand the original distribution, the entire workflow needs to have been recorded

ori_b 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah, so a painfully obvious attempt at moving goalposts and showering people with bullshit.

	▲	tonymet 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think this is appropriate language