Ewing E Thomas, Gad Samah, Ramakrishnan Naren, Reznick Jeffrey S
Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Discovery Analytics Center, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA 22203.
Proc IEEE Int Conf Big Data. 2014 Oct;2014:39-46. doi: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004451.
Humanities scholars, particularly historians of health and disease, can benefit from digitized library collections and tools such as topic modeling. Using a case study from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this paper explores the application of a big humanities approach to understanding the impact of a public health official on the course of the disease and the response of the public, as documented through digitized newspapers and medical periodicals.
人文学者,尤其是健康与疾病史学家,可以从数字化图书馆馆藏以及诸如主题建模之类的工具中受益。本文以1918年西班牙流感疫情为例,探讨了一种大型人文研究方法在理解一位公共卫生官员对疾病进程及公众反应所产生的影响方面的应用,这些影响是通过数字化报纸和医学期刊记录下来的。