Comments on: The Politics of Big Data http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org/09/19/the-politics-of-big-data/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:24:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: ehealey http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org/09/19/the-politics-of-big-data/#comment-87 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:15:00 +0000 http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=415#comment-87 Hi Stewart,

This is a question that interests me too! I’m not sure that I have concrete information to add, but I’m also interested in the theoretical issues here. There was a lot of talk (pro and con) about Google Books’ Ngram Viewer last winter, and I’m curious to know if it offers scholars anything beyond a few minutes’ entertainment. I’m also curious to hear more about what type of data mining (if any) scholars think can/should be done using Google Books or other major corpora of texts. How fearful should we be of inaccurate metadata, loss of context, and OCR errors that result in statistically significant omissions? Elspeth

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