Dealing with Data: Finding and Using Humanistic Data
The field of digital humanities offers exciting possibilities for using our sources in innovative new ways. But there's a hidden challenge in taking humanistic data - from letters to law codes, poems to polemics - and extracting usable data for all those modes of analysis. In this Morning Bytes session, Dr. Meg Smith, research assistant professor in the IRIS Center, talks about finding data in historical, literary, and other humanistic sources and what we can do with it once we've got it.