Those who do research in the humanities often encounter difficulties at this stage, because the very notion of 'data' does not clearly align with disciplinary practices in these fields. In history, anthropology, or literary studies, we think of the phenomena we study in flexible, open-ended, and uncertain terms. We are accustomed to reflecting on the researcher’s subjectivity and placing contingency at the center of our analyses. We analyze political, social, and cultural phenomena as complex objects that are difficult to reduce to a 'dataset'. As Miriam Posner described [in her 2015 lecture, "Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction"](https://perma.cc/BBC5-MBEC):
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