Jo Guldi (Texas Southern Methodist University)

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining

A Methodology for Digital History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Text mining is the art of counting words over time. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new insights into politics, culture, and historical change that can result - and argues that, without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781009262996
• ISBN-10: 1009262998
• Artikelnr.: 66345171

Autorenporträt

Jo Guldi is Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, and Director of the Digital Humanities Minor. Her publications include, as co-author with David Armitage, The History Manifesto (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. A Ropes Course for Exploring the Territory: 1. Why textual data from the past is dangerous
2. From fantasy to engagement
3. Words are keys and words are barriers
4. Critical search, a theory
5. To predict or to describe?
Part II. The Many Windows of the House of the Past: 6. The many windows of the house of the past
7. Of memory
8. The distinctiveness of certain eras
9. The measure of influence
10. Of rock and fire
11. Whither modernity
12. What computers can explain and when to stop: a case study in the political history of climate change
Part III. Critical Thinking with Data Makes Stronger Disciplines: 13. A world map of culture, purged of bias
14. The future of the art.