Digital Humanities

In the sciences, one of the key determinants is the law of large numbers, which states that the more times a researcher repeats a given experiment, the closer that researcher comes to determining an average value that defines the results of that experiment. Translated, this is simply a way of expressing confidence that ever-larger data sets will offer ever-more verifiable conclusions.Certain physical sciences deal with extremely large numbers such as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide for climatology or genetic sequencing in biology.Until recently, such was rarely the case in the humanities.

SOURCE: Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Pressner, T., & Schnapp, J. (2012). Digital Humanities. Cambridge, MA: Massachuetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digitalhumanities

1. Digital Humanities at Scale: the HathiTrust Research Center
2. Large Scale Text Analysis in the Digital Humanities: Methods and Challenges (a speech from UC Berkeley)

3. Laboratory Scale: situated practices in the (digital) humanities