13 Apr 2022
CEDRR talk: "Discussion on Big Data and Network Research in the Traditional Historiography of the Portuguese Colonial Empire"
This project uses historical 'Big Data' extracted via cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to reconstruct and model large temporal social networks of the Portuguese Empire. By using such rich historical data and innovative methods, it aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the processes of institutional and local elite empowerment in Brazil and other Portuguese colonies in the Atlantic from the Restoration of the House of Braganza in 1640 to Brazilian independence in 1822.