Looking Back at Big Data.

The author discusses the use of Big Data in history research, and mentions the relationship between historians and computer scientists in terms of digital historical archives, digital publishing, and online research resources. Computational history research conducted by Adam Jatowt from the Universi...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 21 - 24
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Leah
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2013
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Sumario:The author discusses the use of Big Data in history research, and mentions the relationship between historians and computer scientists in terms of digital historical archives, digital publishing, and online research resources. Computational history research conducted by Adam Jatowt from the University of Kyoto is discussed, as well as collective memory, data mining, and probability distributions. A study on fame conducted by Internet company Google is mentioned, as well as journalism trends research, the British Old Bailey Online law archive, and historian William Turkel.