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UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Humanistic Statistics: New Insights in Ottoman Algerian History
George Mason University Virtual, VA, United StatesThis talk explores how descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing open new windows into Ottoman governors' experiences in early modern Algeria.
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Identifying Latent Textual Bias: Making a case for traditional NLP tasks in the era of AI
Institute of Historical Research Senate House, Malet Street, London, United KingdomInvited talk at the UK Institute of Historical Research - Digital History Seminar. Bias detection remains an area of interest for digital humanists, computational linguists, and information studies scholars, who point to biases inherent in our algorithms, software, tools, and platforms, but we are only just beginning to examine how computational methods could be used […]
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Redressing Colonial Knowledge Systems through Restorative Data Justice
Humboldt University, Berlin Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, GermanySanders will show how this concept of restorative data justice may serve as a bridge between academic studies and work in current data cultures.
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Visualizing History’s Fragments with Ottoman Algerian Registers
University of Virginia VA, United StatesThrough close reading, structured notes, and developing a custom, context-specific classification schema, Dr. Ashley Sanders has reconstructed data sets on the governors of Ottoman Algeria (1518-1837) for prosopographical study. This reconstruction aims to avoid recreating imperial ontologies and instead aims to describe these men and women with categories that they themselves would have likely employed.