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Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities Credit: Getty Images July 15, 2021 There is a general belief that data is objective, neutral, and therefore accurate. "Numbers don't lie," goes the oft-repeated maxim. But what about the people interpreting the data: can individuals really be objective or neutral? Who gets to decide which data is important? And what about the stories and trut...