Open AccessFrom Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources
Author(s) -
Marten Düring
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the programming historian
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-2068
DOI - 10.46430/phen0044
Subject(s) - hermeneutics , visualization , data science , social network analysis , computer science , data extraction , data visualization , social network (sociolinguistics) , world wide web , data mining , epistemology , social media , political science , philosophy , medline , law
Network visualizations can help humanities scholars reveal hidden and complex patterns and structures in textual sources. This tutorial explains how to extract network data (people, institutions, places, etc) from historical sources through the use of non-technical methods developed in Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) and Social Network Analysis (SNA), and how to visualize this data with the platform-independent and particularly easy-to-use Palladio.