About this book
Introduction
Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the missions of gathering records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results.
Keywords
Aggregation crowd sourcing datasets global archive historical dynamics human-natural interaction information science social-science data social-science theory supercomputing visualization world history Big Data dynamics history history of literature interpret project structure time
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378972
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
- Publisher Name Palgrave Pivot, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-47853-8
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-37897-2
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