{"product_id":"the-dangerous-art-of-text-mining-9781009262989","title":"The Dangerous Art of Text Mining","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151219552599,"sku":"9781009262989","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dangerous-art-of-text-mining-9781009262989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}