Reports of the Yandex conference "Digital methods in the humanities"

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The conference "Data & Science: Digital Methods in the Humanities" was held on March 2, 2019. The main topic was data analysis in the humanities.

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Abstracts of reports
Digital Methods in Humanities, Daniil Skorinkin
Digital Humanities Between Research and Infrastructure, Frank Fischer
What types of museum data are there and why should they be analyzed, Vladimir Opredelenov
Stories about Data Science in History, Dinara Gagarina
Data Science in the Analysis of Modern History, Lev Manovich
Data Science in Social Sciences, Daniil Alexandrov
How Data Science Can and Cannot Help Literary Science, Boris Orekhov
How to teach a neural network to generate poetry, Ilya Gusev
Computers Read: How Statistics and Neural Networks Help to Better Understand Medieval Chinese Poetry, Mariana Zorkina
Data&Science broadcast recordings
Digital Methods in the Humanities – Extropolis Hall
Digital Methods in the Humanities – Moulin Rouge Room
The popularity of the topic is growing with the mass digitalization of human heritage in the field of culture. Literary scholars, sociologists and historians have already appreciated the benefits of data digitalization. The speakers who participated in the conference used their experience in their works and shared the results with the audience.

The conference featured illustrative examples:

health research based on Twitter data;
poverty studies based on data obtained georgia telegram from mobile operators;
analysis of the transcripts of the French parliament;
computer poetry and computer reading of Chinese poems.
Abstracts of reports
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Digital Methods in Humanities, Daniil Skorinkin
digital methods in gastronomic sciences daniil skorinkin 1 — JMS University
Daniil Skorinkin
Thanks to the digitalization of data, historical information, artistic texts and collections of paintings became available for study. Daniil Skorinkin spoke about how to apply statistics and data analysis for research in the field of literary criticism, history, cultural studies, and visual arts. A striking visual example that attracted the attention of the audience was the analysis of painting using the method of Giovanni Morelli. Particular attention was paid to the evolution of art.