Project Arclight at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data

On October 27, Kit Hughes will travel to Bethesda, Maryland for the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data to report on Project Arclight’s progress to an audience of digital humanities researchers and project developers. Her presentation, “Scaled Entity Search: A Method for Media Historiography and Response to Critiques of Big Humanities Data Research,” will be part of the Big Humanities Data Workshop, which features six other winners of the Digging into Data Challenge, as well as several other significant large-scale digital humanities projects. Organized by Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke, and Richard Marciano, the workshop will address the promises and pitfalls of working with big data to humanist ends. At the conclusion of the workshop, presentation slides will be distributed online and the paper from which Hughes developed her talk—co-written with Eric Hoyt, Derek Long, Kevin Ponto, and Anthony Tran—will be published as part of the conference proceedings.