Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope

by Scott Weingart, Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan

Book Overview

The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783266376
• ISBN13: 9781783266371
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"