This book is sharing the idea with Armitage and Guldi book, The History Manifesto. How can big data change the historian's studies? Which data can help to connect the history with technology? What are some data visualization applications that can solve data analytics and give users the best results? All of this can lead to one thesis. Big data is an essential part of the humanities studies and the historian to protect the content from harming in this vast phenomenon stores the information.

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The authors in the book aimed to help the scholars in the history field in two ways; giving the tools that help to interrupt that data and read the book free on the website. In my opinion, this the best way to promote your book what seems new for me in this version that the reader can review the theory of this book and try an example of the digital tools along with testing that and this will give the students the opportunity to practice this innovation.

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In the first chapter, the writers highlight the meaning of big data from different angles. What is essential for the historian people?  Commonly they identify big data as every human information. Moreover, how the artistic and massive historian drowns the data through different digital tools. Starting from The Old Bailey database and hoe the researcher develop the gaps between deferent projects to start the other with data and features. JSTOR is one of the academic journals that have extensive data to help the researcher. This database was significant to historian people and it ‘was helpful in the 1980s until now.

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In this chapter, we found an introduction of when the” digital humanities” and what was the innovations and systems that collaborative such as IBM system and the search engines features to define the concept of DH.

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In the second chapter, the authors give the reasons why we can’t provide one definition for DH concept; it depends on the field. Also, in this chapter, the writers indicate the fundamental issues related to big data and every historian must understand “the open access and open source movements, copyright, and what we mean by textual analysis.” How open source change the way that historian store the information and prompted. Moreover, how companies like Google data and google book with both online and printing sources.

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Downloading data is one of the useful tools for historians. In the book, the authors encourage scholars to be an advance historian and learn programming languages. Python is the new programming codes for companies nowadays. Wget systems also were one of the digital applications that the authors provided vast explanations and examples to the way that helps the scholars to install and write the command to run the software in deferent systems. Also, we can find small tools in our life are giving the features to digging the data — for example, Excel sheets, Google chrome’s extinctions.

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In chapter three the book explained in detail how we could search and clean the keywords to use it in Gephi network visualization package. From my experience, I would say that Gephi is the primary program to any scholar that will study the analysis of the text. I used it to know how many times, the “Saudi women “published on YouTube how these topics appear. I got many related issues that help me to complete my research. {I got many associated issues that help achieve my research on YouTube through videos published by Saudi women concerning the emergence of the topics}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thus, this chapter was included a piece of enormous information to help the researcher to invest in digital humanities studies.

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In short, the data is available but how we interrupt this data and which applications we used to appear visual? This what comes to museums data. Museums data is saying who said this and when and which pictures and news were in that moment. From my perspective this what we all reasonable to keep our generation aware of what happened in the past to avoid it in the future.

 

The concept that the writers adopted about how we all digital historian is interesting. I was looking to social media and in particular Twitter and Facebook, and I am wondering are these websites by itself are digital archives. When we post an event on these platforms, we are storing history. After years we go back to our posts, we recall the database.

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There is still the question of dose digital applicable to save the past? Always am asking myself?

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