Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data
"World of DaaS"
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History and the Nature of Archiving
Historians have been doing this kind of thing for a long, long time. And that's the kind of data and the nature of archiving have both changed a lot. We began to see that apparently boring things like price data from old newspapers could help us understand flows of trade of goods and so forth. Even in the medieval period there was huge reservoir of raw data about how the English economy works.
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