Tableau Visualization of David Boder Keywords to Words Indexing Ratio by Todd Presner's Digital Humanities Lab (original author)

Ethics of the Algorithm: Counter-Indexing Holocaust Testimony

DH Minor / Graduate Certificate — Holocaust Research Lab

Indexing ratios for 70 interviews in David Boder’s Topical Autobiographies (1957), UCLA Young Research Library Special Collections.

Computational text analysis becomes a tool for examining Holocaust survivor testimony and revealing forms of moral complexity that conventional keyword indexing can obscure. The project contributed to a chapter in the book Ethics of the Algorithm, by faculty mentor Todd Presner (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Project Contributors: Lizhou Fan and Anna Bonazzi