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Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Hardcover): Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Hardcover)
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future. It represents the current state-of-the-art thinking in the field and exemplifies the way that digital work can enhance public engagement in the humanities.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.The companion website to Exploring Big Historical Data can be found at www.themacroscope.org/. On this site you will find code, a discussion forum, essays, and datafiles that accompany this book.

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Paperback): Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Paperback)
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart
R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future. It represents the current state-of-the-art thinking in the field and exemplifies the way that digital work can enhance public engagement in the humanities.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.The companion website to Exploring Big Historical Data can be found at www.themacroscope.org/. On this site you will find code, a discussion forum, essays, and datafiles that accompany this book.

These Were People Once - The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters: Damien Huffer, Shawn Graham These Were People Once - The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters
Damien Huffer, Shawn Graham
R2,953 Discovery Miles 29 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade. The answers speak to how the 21st century understands and constructs ‘heritage’ more generally: each person their own expert, yet seeking community and validation, and like the major encyclopedic museums, built on a kind of digital neocolonialist othering of the dead.

An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology - Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence... An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology - Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)
Shawn Graham
R715 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R36 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the 'just-so' stories they tell about the past. It requires a formalization of the story so that it can be represented as a simulation; researchers are then able to explore the unintended consequences or emergent outcomes of stories about the past. Agent-based models are one end of a spectrum that, at the opposite side, ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Hardcover, Second Edition): Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott... Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Hardcover, Second Edition)
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart, Kimberley Martin
R2,502 Discovery Miles 25 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.

An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology - Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence... An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology - Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
Shawn Graham
R2,948 Discovery Miles 29 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the 'just-so' stories they tell about the past. It requires a formalization of the story so that it can be represented as a simulation; researchers are then able to explore the unintended consequences or emergent outcomes of stories about the past. Agent-based models are one end of a spectrum that, at the opposite side, ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Paperback, Second Edition): Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott... Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (Paperback, Second Edition)
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott B. Weingart, Kimberley Martin
R1,282 Discovery Miles 12 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.

Failing Gloriously and Other Essays (Paperback): Eric C Kansa, Neha Gupta Failing Gloriously and Other Essays (Paperback)
Eric C Kansa, Neha Gupta; Shawn Graham
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mile 1 - Last Guns of the Mississippi (Paperback): Latrice Graham, Shawn Graham Mile 1 - Last Guns of the Mississippi (Paperback)
Latrice Graham, Shawn Graham
R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cold Clues Vol. 2 (Paperback): Shawn Graham Cold Clues Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Shawn Graham; S. Labrecque
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cold Clues - Journey, Book 2 Part 1 (Paperback): Shawn Graham Cold Clues - Journey, Book 2 Part 1 (Paperback)
Shawn Graham; S. Labrecque
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ex Figlinis: The Network Dynamics of the Tiber Valley Brick Industry in the Hinterland of Rome - The Network Dynamics of the... Ex Figlinis: The Network Dynamics of the Tiber Valley Brick Industry in the Hinterland of Rome - The Network Dynamics of the Tiber Valley Brick Industry in the Hinterland of Rome (Paperback)
Shawn Graham
R1,675 Discovery Miles 16 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The growth of the city of Rome was dependent on its ability to exploit successfully the human and natural resources of its hinterland. Although this eventually expanded to incorporate the entire Mediterranean seaboard, the resources of the Tiber Valley originally nourished the city and continued to do so despite the growth in imports from elswhere in the Roman world. This study examines the way the Tiber Valley functioned in terms of its economic and social geography, as evidenced by the organisation and dynamics of the brick industry.

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