Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram

This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission to repost here.   I’m currently in Washington DC to attend the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. The first day is set...

New reviews: emotions, Achilles, crime and punishment and Dominicans

We start with Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000 by Ute Frevert. Anna Jordanous believes this book’s strengths lie in its contextual diversity and in the thoroughness of the compilation and usage of reference sources...