Research Catalog

Title

Big data in history / Patrick Manning.

Author

Manning, Patrick, 1941-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Description

viii, 119 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Big Data in History" introduces a project to create a world-historical archive that will trace the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. The archive will link research on social, economic, and political affairs, plus health and climate, for societies throughout the world. The care, detail, and advanced technology that go into building such an archive are outlined in this book, and the benefits of gathering and disseminating data from our long history are clearly mapped out. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, how to organize historical research on five continents, and the missions of gathering widespread records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results. The concluding chapters summarize project plans and compare it with two major and successful projects in worldwide data: the modelling of climate and documenting the human genome.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot.

Subjects

• Big data
• History, Modern > Databases

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-115) and index.

Call Number

JFD 14-1624

ISBN

• 9781137378965 (hbk.)
• 1137378964 (hbk.)
• 9781137378989 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137378972 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

860752190

Author

Manning, Patrick, 1941- author.

Title

Big data in history / Patrick Manning.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-115) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-1624