# Data Are Made, Not Found > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. *Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census* (University of Chicago Press, September 2026) is [[danah boyd]]'s account of how the [[Census Bureau]] produced the [[2020 Census]] through a pandemic and sustained political pressure. boyd first met the Bureau in 2016 as a member of a federal advisory committee and spent about eight years observing its staff. The book moves through the count one controversy at a time, among them the fight over the [[Census Citizenship Question]]. Its final chapter, "Resilience in an Era of Jenga Politics," sets out [[Jenga Politics]], her argument that decades of pulled support and added requirements have left the government's machinery brittle. The manuscript won a 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.