Network Inference from Textual Evidence

This lecture explores the concept of network inference from textual evidence, focusing on information propagation, translation, and multi-input attention. It delves into the analysis of digital breadcrumbs such as email, social media, phone records, web links, and web searches. The lecture also discusses the roots of big data, the return of the editor in digital humanities, and the significance of books as big data. Furthermore, it covers topics like privacy for breastfeeding mothers, connections between regions of the Islamic world in the 11th century, and the defense of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.