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I recall reading a phenomenal blog(?) post about data science in history in which the author presented some historical data relating to the northern renaissance (iirc, shipping logs) and then presented two completely plausible but divergent analyses of the data.

I've spent hours trying to find it again on multiple occasions with no success. :(

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Maybe this -- https://sappingattention.blogspot.in/2012/11/reading-digital...

It sure sounds like it, thanks!

That blog's been posted often, but with little success: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sappingattention.blog...

This thread is quite amusing, I think I'll fav it.

Great blog. The author, incidentally, is a youngish historian named Ben Schmidt. I feel like it's a natural fit with an HN audience given how data-driven his work is, but as you say, it doesn't break through very much.

He also created (helped create?) a tool called Bookworm that might be of interest: http://bookworm.culturomics.org

Thanks! The Bookworm link doesn't work right now, but I found this demo video very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kAlwiXt0bY

Alas, not quite! But thanks for pointing me to that article.

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