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Text mining is the art of counting words over time. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new insights into politics, culture, and historical change that can result – and argues that, without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors.

Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. A Ropes Course for Exploring the Territory: 1. Why textual data from the past is dangerous; 2. From fantasy to engagement; 3. Words are keys and words are barriers; 4. Critical search, a theory; 5. To predict or to describe?; Part II. The Many Windows of the House of the Past: 6. The many windows of the house of the past; 7. Of memory; 8. The distinctiveness of certain eras; 9. The measure of influence; 10. Of rock and fire; 11. Whither modernity; 12. What computers can explain and when to stop: a case study in the political history of climate change; Part III. Critical Thinking with Data Makes Stronger Disciplines: 13. A world map of culture, purged of bias; 14. The future of the art.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009262989, 978-1009262989
      ISBN10: 100926298X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Text mining is the art of counting words over time. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new insights into politics, culture, and historical change that can result – and argues that, without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Part I. A Ropes Course for Exploring the Territory: 1. Why textual data from the past is dangerous; 2. From fantasy to engagement; 3. Words are keys and words are barriers; 4. Critical search, a theory; 5. To predict or to describe?; Part II. The Many Windows of the House of the Past: 6. The many windows of the house of the past; 7. Of memory; 8. The distinctiveness of certain eras; 9. The measure of influence; 10. Of rock and fire; 11. Whither modernity; 12. What computers can explain and when to stop: a case study in the political history of climate change; Part III. Critical Thinking with Data Makes Stronger Disciplines: 13. A world map of culture, purged of bias; 14. The future of the art.

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