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Digging into Data white paper : Trading Consequences

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03/2014
Author
Klein, Ewan
Alex, Beatrice
Grover, Claire
Tobin, Richard
Coates, Colin
Clifford, Jim
Quigley, Aaron
Hinrichs, Uta
Reid, James
Osborne, Nicola
Fieldhouse, Ian
Keywords
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
D History (General)
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Abstract
Scholars interested in nineteenth century global economic history face a voluminous historical record. Conventional approaches to primary source research on the economic and environmental implications of globalised commodity flows typically restrict researchers to specific locations or a small handful of commodities. By taking advantage of cutting edge computational tools, the project was able to address much larger data sets for historical research, and thereby provides historians with the means to develop new data driven research questions. In particular, this project has demonstrated that text mining techniques applied to tens of thousands of documents about nineteenth century commodity trading can yield a novel understanding of how economic forces connected distant places all over the globe and how efforts to generate wealth from natural resources impacted on local environments. The large scale findings that result from the application of these new methodologies would be barely feasible using conventional research methods. Moreover, the project vividly demonstrates how the digital humanities can benefit from transdisciplinary collaboration between humanists, computational linguists and information visualisation experts
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Klein , E , Alex , B , Grover , C , Tobin , R , Coates , C , Clifford , J , Quigley , A , Hinrichs , U , Reid , J , Osborne , N & Fieldhouse , I 2014 ' Digging into Data white paper : Trading Consequences ' Trading Consequences Project .
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Copyright The Authors and the Trading Consequences Project 2014.
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URL
http://tradingconsequences.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7214

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