Data-Driven Humanities

Data-driven methods are becoming more and more important in Humanities. Fundamental. Digital tools have been producing a huge increase in the amount of data, in forms that only computers can process. A point has been reached where manual analyses of [...]

Data Mining: Fifty Shades of Literature

Grey literature is the material produced by organizations or individuals outside the standard commercial or academic publishing. It can take the form of reports, working papers, evaluations, theses, blogs, preprints, field notes, and it is generally produced to store or [...]

The kind you look up and the kind you make up – It’s statistics!

Statistics deals with methods for collecting, summarizing, analyzing, interpreting and presenting data. Statistics is a highly interdisciplinary field, since it can be applied virtually everywhere. Everywhere you have data. The theory underlying statistical methods deeply rely on mathematical and computational [...]