Lecture

Digital Turn in History: Culturomics and Data Visualization

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This lecture explores the 'digital turn' in history, focusing on culturomics, a computational lexicology approach to studying cultural trends through quantitative analysis of digitized textual data. It delves into the analysis of a corpus of digitized texts, providing insights into linguistic and cultural phenomena from 1800 to 2000. The lecture also covers the challenges and opportunities of introducing quantitative methods into the study of culture, emphasizing the visualization of data to understand cultural trends over time.

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