With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana University) Carleton’s digital historian Shawn Graham has written a pioneering book on big data and history. The book describes and demonstrates the ways data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research, and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp big data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.

The book launch will take place in the History Department Lounge (room 433) in Paterson Hall starting at 11:30 a.m.