I sat down with Peter DeCraene, the 2020-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress, to reflect on how messy, yet rewarding, it is to think of library collections as data in a classroom educational setting.
Eileen J. Manchester (EJM): Hi, Peter. First of all, thank you so much for spending the last two years as a Fellow at the Library of Congress. During your fellowship, you’ve written many insightful posts about bringing mathematics to life with historical sources and, vice versa, the history of mathematics education.
We started working together because of our shared interest in datasets. My team, LC Labs, investigates creative and computational ways that researchers and artists can use l