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Big Data, Small Data and Meaning The Conundrums of Tool use in the Humanities Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex

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Slides associated with a keynote address delivered at a British Library Labs event on Monday 3 November 2014

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Big Data, Small Data and MeaningThe Conundrums of Tool use in the Humanities

Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex

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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob

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Katy Börner, Plug-and-Play Macroscopes

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 3, Pages 60-6910.1145/1897852.1897871

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http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/

Paper Machines

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The Historian's Macroscope: Big Digital History

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Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex: [email protected]

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