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Big Data in History

  • Patrick Manning
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-viii
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  2. Challenges of Big Data in History
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 1-13
  3. The Need to Know our Global Past
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 14-28
  4. CHIA: Its Collaborative Mission, Structure, and Innovation
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 29-43
  5. Mission 1: Assembling and Documenting the Data
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 44-60
  6. Mission 2: Creating a Comprehensive Historical Archive
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 61-70
  7. Mission 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Data Worldwide
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 71-83
  8. Comparisons: Big Data across Time and Disciplines
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 84-100
  9. Priorities for CHIA; Benefits of CHIA
    Patrick Manning
    Pages 101-107
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 108-119
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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

Authors and affiliations

  • Patrick Manning
    • 1
  1. 1.University of PittsburghUSA

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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