Don’t Fear, Don’t Trust: Some Methodological Considerations on Data Mining and Data Visualization Applied to Cuneiform Sources

Overview

This paper aims to share my personal experience with digital tools, specifically focusing on data mining and data visualization, in the context of Assyriology. The paper discusses several “laws of data mining” and their implications for historical research, with a focus on cuneiform sources. Part of this paper has been published in my paper “Visibility Threshold .”