Big Data in History

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Manning is Mellon Professor of World History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. A leader in world-historical scholarship and institution-building, with specialization in Africa and the African diaspora, he now directs an effort to create a world-historical archive. Klappentext Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the missions of gathering records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results. Zusammenfassung Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive! tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan! how to interpret the past through a global archive! the missions of gathering records! linking local data into global patterns! and exploring the results. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Challenges of Big Data in History 2. The Need to Know our Global Past 3. CHIA: Its Collaborative Mission, Structure, and Innovation 4. Mission 1: Assembling and Documenting the Data 5. Mission 2: Creating a Comprehensive Historical Archive 6. Mission 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Data Worldwide 7. Comparisons: Big Data across Time and Disciplines 8. Priorities for CHIA: Benefits of CHIA

List of contents

1. Challenges of Big Data in History 2. The Need to Know our Global Past 3. CHIA: Its Collaborative Mission, Structure, and Innovation 4. Mission 1: Assembling and Documenting the Data 5. Mission 2: Creating a Comprehensive Historical Archive 6. Mission 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Data Worldwide 7. Comparisons: Big Data across Time and Disciplines 8. Priorities for CHIA: Benefits of CHIA

Product details

• Authors: P Manning, P. Manning, Patrick Manning
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137378965
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37896-5
• No. of pages: 127
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, History, world history, General & world history, Database Management, Historiography, Data Structures and Information Theory, database programming, Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems and Communication Service, Computers, Algorithms & data structures, Information theory, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Historiography and Method, Data structures (Computer science), Databases, Computer networking & communications