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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 21 - 24
Main Author: Hoffmann, Leah
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2013
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