The dangerous art of text mining : a methodology for digital history
This book celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors. The book opens with a rogue's gallery...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore : Cambridge University Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Historiography Text data mining History Electronic digital information literacy Digital humanities Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie HISTORY / Historiography History of ideas History: theory & methods Text Mining mehr... |
| Umfang: | xxx, 465 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors. The book opens with a rogue's gallery of errors, then tours the ground-breaking analyses that have resulted from collaborations between humanists and data scientists. Jo Guldi explores how text mining can give a glimpse of the changing history of the past - for example, how quickly Americans forgot the history of slavery. Textual data can even prove who was responsible in Congress for silencing environmentalism over recent decades. The book ends with an impassioned vision of what text mining in defence of democracy would look like, and why humanists need to be involved. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | xxx, 465 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781009262989 100926298X 9781009262996 1009262998 9781009263016 1009263013 |