Book contents
- The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
- The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Toward a Smarter Data Science
- Part II The Hidden Dimensions of Temporal Experience
- Part III Disciplinary Implications
- Chapter 13 A Map of World Culture, Purged of Bias
- Chapter 14 The Future of the Art
- Appendix: Notes on Data, Code, Labor, Room for Error, and British History
- Index
Chapter 13 - A Map of World Culture, Purged of Bias
from Part III - Disciplinary Implications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2023
- The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
- The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Toward a Smarter Data Science
- Part II The Hidden Dimensions of Temporal Experience
- Part III Disciplinary Implications
- Chapter 13 A Map of World Culture, Purged of Bias
- Chapter 14 The Future of the Art
- Appendix: Notes on Data, Code, Labor, Room for Error, and British History
- Index
Summary
This chapter asks what it looks like when a discipline uses the power of big data to address its own biases. Drawing from the example of historical linguistics, it tells the story of a discipline that inherited Victorian metanarratives about the evolution of race, language, and history in the past. Historical linguistics is also, as a modern discipline, a place where applied quantitative measures have aided the process of recognizing and addressing inherited biases about empire and race. The chapter urges the experience of historical linguistics as a pattern for other disciplines, showing how text mining can become a tool capable of nuanced work when used together with traditional forms of cultural analysis.
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- The Dangerous Art of Text MiningA Methodology for Digital History, pp. 407 - 418Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023