Humans love historical data! Nothing tickles our fancy more than a line chart with dates beginning in, at the very least, a 1 and an 8.
But in the data world, anything before the First World War might as well be off the edge of the world — systematic data collection becomes so rare that many series going back that far have been cobbled together with spit and spackle.
This even holds true when the data in question addresses one of the biggest, most important economic objects in the known universe: the U.S. housing market.
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