The U.S. government is beginning to post its vast collection of data sets online. At the moment, there are only 47 data sets posted at data.gov and most of these are geological or weather related. However, it won’t be long (I’m told) before data of greater interest to historians begin to appear. I, for one,…
Tag: Visualizations
Visualization as an Introduction to Text Mining?
Over the next 24 hours thousands, if not tens of thousands, of pages of text will appear on the Internet that will be of use to historians–books via Google, government documents, primary sources from archives, and many more. This blessing and curse of the digital age presents those of us who teach history with a…
Text Mining for Historians
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] This summer the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will begin work on a two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. The project, entitled “Scholarship in the Age of Abundance: Enhancing Historical Research With…
The Search Primary (2)
“Super Tuesday” has come and gone with no clear winner on the Democratic side of the ledger. Hillary Clinton apparently won more delegates, but Barack Obama won more states and stayed very close to Clinton in the total delegate count. On the Republican side, John McCain scored a big, but nowhere near decisive, victory. Our…