Exploring Big Historical Data

The Digital Humanities Have Arrived At A Moment When Digital Big Data Is Becoming More Readily Available, Opening Exciting Avenues Of Inquiry But Also Challenges. This Pioneering Book Describes And Demonstrates The Ways These Data Can Be Explored To Construct Cultural Heritage Knowledge, For Research And In Teaching And Learning. It Helps Humanities Scholars To Grasp Big Data In Order To Do Their Work, Whether That Means Understanding The Underlying Algorithms At Work In Search Engines, Or Designing And Using Their Own Tools To Process Large Amounts Of Information.demonstrating What Digital Tools Have To And Also What 'digital' Does To How We Understand The Past, The Authors Introduce The Many Different Tools And Developing Approaches In Big Data For Historical And Humanistic Scholarship, Show How To Use Them, What To Be Wary Of, And Discuss The Kinds Of Questions And Perspectives This Macroscopic Perspective Opens Up.