This contribution suggests quantitative methods suitable for a one-person history project, explaining their value and their challenges by using my research project as an example. After introducing research questions, I focus on choices of categorization and methods of detecting correlation between variables. Then, after presenting the most popular text-mining techniques, I focus on those that can integrate the analysis of texts with their associated metadata, drawing examples from the Napoleonic Employment Applications project.

Methods and Tools of Quantification in Historical Research. Napoleonic Employment Applications as a Case Study

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This contribution suggests quantitative methods suitable for a one-person history project, explaining their value and their challenges by using my research project as an example. After introducing research questions, I focus on choices of categorization and methods of detecting correlation between variables. Then, after presenting the most popular text-mining techniques, I focus on those that can integrate the analysis of texts with their associated metadata, drawing examples from the Napoleonic Employment Applications project.
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