The previous videos talked about how to ask and formulate and develop over time
a research question. Research questions are a way that we keep things on track
particularly useful in collaborations. It's a way of kind of bringing to the surface
kind of implicit assumptiuons of ones own scholarly interests, one's own epistemic
stands. A critical part of answering a research question, at least in humanities
analytics is the discovery and analysis and discussion of what we're gonna call
patterns. Pattern analysis, pattern recognition, is a key part of a
investigation into humanities analytics
meaning a key part of how we can unfold and investigate
traditional profound questions in the humanities
using new mathematical and technological tools.
So this series of videos, this lecture will talk about four things
First I will tell you at least an operational definition of
what patterns are. Secondly I'll introduce the idea that
patterns can be a bridge between the humanities and sciences.
I'll talk about a key aspect or a sort of challenge in using patterns to answer
humanistic questions, and in particular the problem of the way in which a
abstract representation of a pattern relates to the substantive lived experience
of whatever instantiation that pattern has in the real world.
and finally, David Kennedy as a
philosopher in this case will introduce patterns from a more
philosophical perspective.
So alright, definitionally,
what are patterns?
This is for us a functional one. Patterns or habits of thougght
speech, and action. So a pattern would be for exmaple
how people talk about excellence. To use our academic blurb research question
from before. They could be really micro, right