Google Books, the n-gram, and culturomics

Anita Guerrini (Oregon State) examines Google Books, the n-gram, and culturomics On March 1st, 2013, the Horning Endowment for the Humanities and the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University sponsored the Digital Humanities Symposium. The digital humanities is concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. Some questions explored include: * How has the information revolution influenced humanistic study? * How have digital archives changed the way humanities scholars do research? * How does the internet change the way scholarship is disseminated? * What are the new tools that humanities scholars can use? Moderated by James Capshew (Indiana University), this event featured four scholars who explored aspects of the digital humanities in brief presentations including: Rob Iliffe (University of Sussex, UK and the Newton Project) asked whether new digital tools will mean new historical questions and practices. (THIS VIDEO) Anita Guerrini (Oregon State) examined Google Books, the n-gram, and culturomics Patrick McCray (UC Santa Barbara) discussed how scientists might be able to tell humanists something about "big data" and Dan Rosenberg (UO), who explored the difference between data and "data" For more information on the OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, visit us at: http://oregonstate.edu/cla/shpr