Three questions?

  1. What is Digital Humanities in general?
  2. Where is DH at NYU?
  3. What are the most useful connections to Data Science?

What is DH?

What is DH?

  1. A reckoning with digitization

Three ways of reckoning with digitization:

  1. Practical focus on creating digitized copies of sources
  2. Rich set of practice around born digital sources.
  3. Theoretical focus on what it means to have a digitally mediated culture.

Digitization is an ongoing process.

Bert Spaan, NYC Space/Time Directory, NYPL;
Stephen Balogh, NYU Spatial Data Repository;
Nicholas Wolf, NYU NewYorkScapes

Other forms of digitization:

What is DH?

  1. A reckoning with digitization
  2. The deployment of algorithmic approaches to ask and answer humanities questions.

What is DH?

  1. A reckoning with digitization.
  2. The deployment of algorithmic approaches to ask and answer humanities questions.
  3. An effort to update scholarly communication with the way we read and write

What is DH at NYU?

What do DH and data science offer each other?

Underwood, Distant Horizons