Big Data

Frictionless data and Berry, Fagerjord 2017 – Digital humanities brought us here > This [explanation, rather than understanding, of technology ; R.B.], we think, in some senses explains the interest in digital humanities, in increasing quantification and discretization of the humanities, and the fetishization of large quantities of data as a result of these techniques. It also explains the warm welcome that the practices around Big Data have received in the digital humanities so far. (Berry, Fagerjord 2017 – Digital humanities, p. 104)