The Dangerous Art of Text Mining

Jo Guldi

ISBN 10: 1009262998 / ISBN 13: 9781009262996

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2023

About this Item

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors. The book opens with a rogue's gallery of errors, then tours the ground-breaking analyses that have resulted from collaborations between humanists and data scientists. Jo Guldi explores how text mining can give a glimpse of the changing history of the past - for example, how quickly Americans forgot the history of slavery. Textual data can even prove who was responsible in Congress for silencing environmentalism over recent decades. The book ends with an impassioned vision of what text mining in defence of democracy would look like, and why humanists need to be involved.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009262998
• ISBN 13: 9781009262996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: New.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 2.84H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 2.84 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 720 grams

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Synopsis

Shows how text mining - the art of counting words over time - spurs insights into politics, culture, and historical change.

About the Author

Jo Guldi is Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, and Director of the Digital Humanities Minor. Her publications include, as co-author with David Armitage, The History Manifesto (Cambridge, 2014).