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Digital Humanities—Special Considerations for the Programmer

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The field of Digital Humanities, in dealing with data produced by humans about humans (i.e., the Humanities), requires some special considerations for the programmer. This chapter provides a brief description of some popular analytical approaches to the digital humanities, including Digital Archiving and Editing, General Quantitative Analysis, Network Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Stylometry, Textual Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Visualization, and then introduces some special considerations regarding programming for the Humanities, including the place of money (a.k.a. funding) in the process, the difficulty researchers face when they attempt to quantify the Human, qualitative analysis as an alternative and its usefulness for DH projects, and the discussion about whether DH researchers should focus more on the proper use of the tools that already exist, over creating their own one-off tools.

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    Brian Kokensparger

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Kokensparger, B. (2018). Digital Humanities—Special Considerations for the Programmer. In: Guide to Programming for the Digital Humanities. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99115-3_3

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