Digital Scholarship Seminar: Implications of Data for the 21st-century Humanist
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While a number of free data analysis and visualization tools have become available on the web during last few years (Many Eyes, Tableau, Google docs, etc.), they are not useful unless you have access to large social datasets.
I have no doubt that eventually we will see many more humanities and social science researchers who are equally good at most abstract theoretical arguments as well the latest data analysis algorithms which they can implement themselves, as opposed to relying on computer scientists.
Lev Manovich, Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data
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Digging Into Data: Criminal Intent
(voyeurtools.org)
(zotero.org)
(oldbaileyonline.org)
(diggingintodata.org)
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Book of Job 5-grams in GB British English 1789-1914
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Book of Job 5-grams in GB British English 1789-1914
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Some 19th century editions of the Bible…
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“…science of…” GB British English 1789-1914
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Errors due to missing metadata. Compare locality and country.
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Pittier, H. H. F. Pittier Pittier H. H. F. Pittier. Pittier H. Pittier Pittier,H.
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much more usable…
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Furthermore, XML medium adds a significant twist to this otherwise straightforward analysis. Ayers and Thomas use XML to embrace…the fact that slavery is too tightly interwoven throughout Southern society to stand alone as a unit of analysis.
Is this is a simple, direct presentation? What does this endeavor do better than the standard practice?
http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/essays/thomasessay.php
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Conclusions
• Malleable data• How to recombine data from various sources• What form(at)s are necessary?
• Circulation of data• Curation and ownership• Communicating with orbital content/data
• Metaphysics of metadata• What are underlying structures? • What are biases in metadata creation?