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Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data

The Fifth Annual GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around the concept of “datafication,” that is, the production of and the shift toward digital representations of historical sources as a prerequisite for storage, access, and analysis, not to mention their transmission and publication online. Historians outside the field of quantitative social ...

Data & Misinformation: Lying with Statistics

In this final session of the UCLA Library fall 2021 Data Literacy workshop series, we will unpack the assumptions we make when collecting data for research projects. We will discuss the consequences when assumptions are wrong in research and how this can lead to flashy headlines and misleading conclusions about research. Finally we will cover ...

The PITCh: Criminal Evidence, A Chat with Beth Bechky and Rebecca Wexler

On December 8th at 3pm Eastern, join us for a chat with Beth Bechky and Rebecca Wexler, on Criminal Evidence. Prof. Bechky is Seymour Milstein Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance and Strategy, Professor of Management and Organizations, and Professor of Sociology, at New York University, and Prof. Wexler is Assistant Professor of Law, and ...