Sapping Attention
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In his blog about Digital Humanities, Ben Schmidt describes using software and tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America. Ben is the director of digital humanities and clinical associate professor of history at New York University and researches humanistic data analysis and data visualization to help people think about the American past in new ways.
Sapping Attention
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(This is a post I've had unpublished since writing it in 2016. Just hitting publish without reviewing right now because it's something I find myself periodically looking at the charts for).
As we get ready to launch the full Hathi Trust+Bookworm to allow tracking words across 13 million books, I've been working on fixing up the metadata from the original MARC records.
This is useful information to have for anyone using Hathi to find books; it's hard to know the general outlines of a collection like this. So what follows are some general outlines about what books are included in the Hathi Tru ..read more