Welcome to the companion site for Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope , published by Imperial College Press. If you want to buy a copy, you can purchase the First Edition or you can enjoy the expanded and revised Second Edition . Feel free to visit our original live-written fully open draft, which is available through The Internet Archive – and if you like what you see, you can always buy the book! (The draft was originally written using Wordpress + Commentpress; but unfortunately, ke
For the resources that accompanied the 2015 version, please see the First Edition website. For the discussion of the volume at our book launch at 2015, listen to it here
The second edition, with new co-author Kim Martin is now out in the world! It was published in March of 2022 and is available from World Scientific . The second edition features new datasets, new code, correction of errors, and expansion of possibilities for what and who digital history can be about. Also, do read Dr. Martin’s piece in The Canadian Historical Review 101(4): 622-650 on ‘Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada’. DOI: 10.3138/chr-2020-0021 .
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Scott B. Weingart | Historian of knowledge, professional circus performer, amateur father, and hopeless adventurer. Research aff