On February 27, 2015, Jennifer Howard wrote a article in The Chronicle of Higher Education profiling the workof the Digging into Data Challenge project, An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. The article, Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists, describes how the project team draws upon the expertise of historians and computer scientists as they study the spread of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in the United States and Canada through digitized historic newspapers.

To learn more about the work of this team and the challenges of working with these digitized sources, check out the project website.