Virginia TechEwing, E. ThomasGad, SamahRamakrishnan, Naren2017-10-232017-10-232014-10http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79734Humanities scholars, particularly historians of health and disease, can benefit from digitized library collections and tools such as topic modeling. Using a case study from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, this paper explores the application of a big humanities approach to understanding the impact of a public health official on the course of the disease and the response of the public, as documented through digitized newspapers and medical periodicals.en-USIn CopyrightHistoryDiseaseData MiningPublic HealthTopic ModelingConference proceedinghttps://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2014.7004451