Major drive to create data science tools for historians launched

UK researchers are launching a multimillion-pound drive to apply new data science and artificial intelligence tools to historical resources.

The Living with Machines project, which has received ?9.2 million from UK Research and Innovation, aims to create tools and software?that will allow digitised collections to be analysed at scale for 바카라사이트 first time.

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Ruth Ahnert, senior lecturer in Renaissance studies at Queen Mary, said that historians had ¡°not traditionally had 바카라사이트 training to look at data at scale¡±.

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