Historians and the Big Data Deluge—a History as it Happens talk

[Anne Leask]

Historians and the Big Data Deluge—a History as it Happens talk<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/historians-and-big-data-deluge>

Tuesday 14 February 12:00 to 1:00
HH 117 MacKirdy Reading Room
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The sheer amount of social, cultural, and political information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day presents new exciting opportunities to historians.

A large amount of this information is being contained within web archives, which contain billions of web pages. Scholars broaching topics dating back to the mid-1990s will find their projects enhanced by web data – military historians can use forum posts by soldiers, social historians can track aspects of everyday life through blogs and comments, political historians can study changing sentiment, tropes, and link structures, and economic historians can explore the rise and fall of businesses webpages.

Yet this tremendous opportunity is mitigated to some degree by the sheer challenge of dealing with all that data: we have more information than ever before, but the scale is overwhelming. In this talk, Professor Milligan<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/about/people/i2millig> explores how historians can work within this field.

Coffee is provided: please feel free to bring your lunch to the talk!





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