https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/tags/datascribe/ Recent content in Datascribe on Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Hugo en-us Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:10:54 +0000 https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/blog/from-historical-sources-to-datasets-a-preview-of-datascribe/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:10:54 +0000 https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/blog/from-historical-sources-to-datasets-a-preview-of-datascribe/ <p><strong>Updated November 11: The <a href="https://github.com/chnm/Datascribe-module/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta">beta release</a> is now available for <a href="https://github.com/chnm/Datascribe-module/releases/download/v1.0.0-beta/Datascribe-1.0.0-beta.zip">download (zip file)</a>.</strong></p> <p>Scholars in history and related humanities fields are increasingly turning towards data analysis and visualization in order to understand the past. Historians have of course long used sources with quantitative informations, such as probate records, tax lists, bills of mortality, censuses, and the like. The mass digitization of historical records has only made those types of sources more readily accessible.</p>