Big Data's Mass Appeal: A Special Report |
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New tools like the search engine's digital library could bring sweeping changes in how people "read" and study history and literature. |
Led by astronomers, scientists are breaking free from the "lone discoverer" model and teaming up to analyze the onslaught of data. |
Remaking the Humanities
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The Spoken Word, Searchable for Scholarship
Linguists at the Universities of Oxford and of Pennsylvania are using new technology to analyze 9,000 hours of recorded speech.
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Scholars Scale Up Music Studies
By gathering about 23,000 hours of digitized music into a framework for analysis, researchers hope to discover large-scale patterns.
Crowdsourcing Science
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'Crowd Tracking' the Gulf Oil Spill
The Visualization Center at San Diego State University is using aerial photos and pictures from smartphones to create a map of oil damage to the gulf coast.
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Crowdsourcing, a Honey of an Idea
When a biologist at San Francisco State started the Great Sunflower Project, to study honeybees, the effort quickly took wing.
Big Data: What Experts Are Saying
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The Chronicle asked some leading scholars to comment on how "big data" will change the humanities and the sciences. Read their responses—and share your own thoughts: |
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"The time is long overdue for literary scholars to start working collaboratively," says David Damrosch of Harvard University. |
"We may need to rename the 'data deluge,'" says Carol Minton Morris of DuraSpace. "How does 'data renaissance' sound?" |
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