The project investigates how information can spread through newspapers during the 1918 influenza pandemic via data mining methods and dozens of titles, mainly obtained from two groups: Pee’s Prairie Provinces, stored at the University of Alberta Library, and Chronicling America, which the US Library of Congress acquired.
Information on the project’s amount, the specific information’s layout, if the data is mutual, and how it relates to DH Best Practices for evidence are all missing from the site. Althought the exact details are not shown on the website, holding to DH’s practices would require broad evidence of the data souces, cleaning actions, detailed techniques, and any consistent datasets to secure clarity and reproducibility for additional researchers.