The Transducer

The fol­low­ing is a frag­ment from an inter­nal doc­u­ment I am draft­ing on why humanists–including but not only dig­i­tal humanists–should be close­ly involved with UVa’s new Data Sci­ence Insti­tute. Much of this will be old hat to many dig­i­tal human­ists who have already embraced the rise of big data as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to be seized and…