Complexity Explorer Santa Few Institute

What you learned in this course

• How "excellence" is judged in the humanities and sciences, as a question of aesthetics but also computation
• What makes a good research question in Humanities Analytics
• What a pattern is in both computation and traditional humanities scholarship – and what patterns do in our sense-making of the world
• How to gather data and display the results of a "counting" Humanities Analytics analysis
• Where measurement and probability come from, philosophically and historically – and how they inform the new epistemology that is Humanities Analytics
• What a Humanities Analytics project "looks like" and a walk-through of how one might approach such a project
• How different scholars are using Humanities Analytics approaches in their varied research programs