Research
The current research corpus
The works through which datumwise states and explains its position now — what each one is, what authority it carries, and whether you can read it here. Versions, dates and deposit records are read from the publication registry when this page is built; nothing on it is typed by hand.
This is narrower than everything datumwise has published and narrower than everything on this site. The manuals govern the shipped system, the Case records what the implementation demonstrably did, known issues records what is presently broken, and the teaching surfaces explain the work — each authoritative for its own subject, none of them part of the corpus below. The complete deposited record is preserved in the publication registry.
Looking for the research map as it was written in August 2026? It is preserved, unchanged, at the research map, 3 August 2026.
Theory and results
The theory itself, and the results that establish it.
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The Ground for Certainty
What grounds carry a conclusion, what they establish, where their warrant stops, and whether they can bear the reliance placed on them.
foundation
current record v1.1 · 26 August 2026
the deposited text is readable here in full
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The Two Anchors of a Measure
Every measure carries two anchors; confusing them is how a rate goes wrong.
foundation
current record v2.0 · 11 August 2026
the deposited text is readable here in full
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The Theory of Data
The foundation, with the proofs: what an analytical object is, and when a number exists.
foundation
current record v6.1 · 19 August 2026
the deposited text is readable here in full
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A Contract Calculus for Governed Analytical Transformation
A calculus for transformations that must preserve governed meaning.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 1 August 2026
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Missingness Has a Universe
Why absence is not one thing, and where each kind of absence lives.
foundation
current record v2.0 · 4 August 2026
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The Statistical Bridge
How statistical claims are licensed — the passage from evidence to inference to claim.
foundation
current record v3.0 · 17 August 2026
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Regime Has a Contract
What a regime commits to, stated as a contract.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 7 August 2026
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Analytical Governance
From a human question to an answer entitled to be served, and where the entitlement stops.
foundation
current record v2.0 · 26 August 2026
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Certifiable State Under Information Loss
What can still be certified once information has been lost.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 17 August 2026
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Where Does Probability Live?
Where in an analytical world a probability is entitled to sit.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 17 August 2026
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The Two Jobs of the Conditioning Bar
The two jobs the conditioning bar is quietly doing at once.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 19 August 2026
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The Three Worlds of Analytics
Analytics crosses three jurisdictions — business meaning, governed data, and material representation — and trouble begins when one silently settles a question belonging to another.
foundation
current record v1.1 · 28 August 2026
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Governing Across Ontological Worlds
A crossing can be governed as a crossing only while its two sides remain distinct — so integration that merges independently governed objects destroys the very act it was meant to make accountable.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 30 August 2026
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The Measure Algebra of the Theory of Data
The operation layer over governed measures: what can be formed, what information must survive an operation, and when a result preserves a measure family or must establish a new one.
foundation
current record v1.0 · 1 September 2026
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Introductions and primers
The same material without the proofs, and the vocabulary in dependency order.
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Frame-QL: An Introduction
Frame-QL as a conceptual account — the fuller on-ramp.
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The Theory of Data: An Introduction
The Theory of Data as a conceptual account, without the proofs.
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A Primer on the Theory of Data
The Theory of Data vocabulary, carefully, in dependency order.
primer
current record v2.2 · 19 August 2026
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A Primer on the Statistical Bridge
The Bridge vocabulary, carefully, in dependency order.
primer
current record v2.0 · 17 August 2026
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A Primer on Frame-QL
The shortest Frame-QL on-ramp. Not the normative reference.
Positions
Stances we hold, each with its evidence and its deposited edition.
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Data Has Its Own Ontology
Data is not a representation of something else. It has its own ontology.
current record v1.1 · 20 August 2026
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Applied work and readings
The theory put to work, and other people’s work read through it.
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Do Not Let Your AI Agent Govern Itself
An AI agent may participate in governance without becoming its final authority: govern the crossings, put ratification outside the agent, and then give it full access to the governed request space.
applied
current record v1.0 · 28 August 2026
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Publication truth is owned by the publication registry, not by any page that renders it. Where a work is deposited, Record goes to the deposit; where it can be read here, Read goes to the text. Anything absent from this page is absent because it is not yet a source a reader can be sent to, not because it is hidden.