By 2020, students of Dalarna University had produced some 100 Bachelor and Master’s theses and 25 Licentiate or Doctoral theses in the academic discipline of Microdata Analysis guided by the university’s faculty. While firmly rooted in the tradition and the format of the formal sciences Computer Science and Mathematics, the theses are disparate with regard to area of investigation, research method, and epistemology. The research carried out in these theses is recognized internationally by learned societies and their journals and conferences, yet Dalarna University remains globally unique in labelling an academic discipline Microdata Analysis. This paper attempts to narrate the history of the forming process of Microdata Analysis at the university and grasp its nature.