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When your data analysis methods have unacknowledged Islamic origins

I work in data science and I just learned that Islamic mathematicians developed statistical methods and I use their concepts without knowing their origins.

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Technical practice operates through historical inheritances that remain professionally invisible and culturally unattributed.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Islamic and Arab contributions to science and technology — historical?”

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