Scott B. Weingart is an American scholar and director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the

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, a position he has held since 2023.

Academic career

Weingart graduated from the

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in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in the

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and a minor in

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. He then worked as a research assistant at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at

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until 2015, when he became director of digital humanities programs at

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(2015–2021) and the

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(2021–2022). Weingart also held elected positions in the

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and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. In December 2020,

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published ''The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities'', a book Weingart co-authored that shows how arts and humanities scholars have approached network visualization,

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theory, and quantitative methods drawn from network science. The book is in about 400 academic libraries and was the subject of two special journal issues. In 2022 he co-authored the textbook ''The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data'', published by World Scientific Press. In 2023 he became the founding director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the U.S.

Recognition

In 2011, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations awarded Weingart and his co-author Jeana Jorgensen the ''Paul Fortier Prize in Digital Humanities'' for their work on gender and the body in European fairy tales. For the Latin American Comics Archive, awarded Weingart and his colleagues Felipe Gómez, Daniel Evans, and Rikk Mulligan the 'Mejor iniciativa formativa' (best formative initiative) award in 2018.

Selected publications

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External links

Personal website

The Route of a Text Message
by Scott Weingart in ''

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References

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