{"id":827,"date":"2015-10-08T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:48:17","slug":"mark-ravina-on-posing-new-questions-through-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2015\/10\/08\/mark-ravina-on-posing-new-questions-through-digital-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ravina on Posing New Questions through Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/ravina-mark.html\">Dr. Mark Ravina<\/a> recently authored a post on <em>Digital Humanities Now<\/em> titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhumanitiesnow.org\/2015\/09\/editors-choice-smooth-and-rough-on-the-highways-of-france\/\">Smooth and Rough on the Highways of France<\/a>.&#8221; Named an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s Choice,&#8221; the post examines how quantitative methods, in this case data visualization, can assist in posing new historical questions. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be found in full <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhumanitiesnow.org\/2015\/09\/editors-choice-smooth-and-rough-on-the-highways-of-france\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One way to conceptualize this complementarity [between social science and humanistic methods] is John Tukey\u2019s observation that \u201cdata = smooth + rough,\u201d or, in more common parlance, quantitative analysis seeks to separate patterns and outliers. In a traditional social science perspective, the focus is on the \u201csmooth,\u201d or the formal model, and the corresponding ability to make broad generalizations. Historians, by contrast, often\u00a0write acclaimed books and articles on the \u201crough,\u201d single exceptional cases. These approaches are superficially opposite, but there is an underlying symbiosis: we need to find the pattern before we can find the outliers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mark Ravina recently authored a post on Digital Humanities Now titled &#8220;Smooth and Rough on the Highways of France.&#8221; Named an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s Choice,&#8221; the post examines how quantitative methods, in this case data visualization, can assist in posing new historical questions. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be found in full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}