Scott B. Weingart

Scott B. Weingart is an American scholar and administrator. He is the Chief Data Officer and directs the Office of Data and Evaluation at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Work and academic career
Weingart works in History of Science and Digital Humanities, adapting computational and digital methods to cultural problems. He is a "leading scholar in the field of historical network research" whose work "made a significant contribution to the formation and development of the computational humanities and social sciences."

Before joining the National Endowment for the Humanities, Weingart directed initiatives at the intersection of technology and the humanities at Carnegie Mellon University (2015-2021) and the University of Notre Dame (2021-2022). Weingart also held elected positions in the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data (World Scientific Press 2022), which Weingart co-authored with Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Kim Martin, is a frequently-assigned textbook introducing big data to humanities scholars.

In The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge University Press 2020), Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, Catherine Coleman, and Weingart show how arts and humanities scholars have approached network visualization, social network theory, and quantitative methods drawn from network science. It is an "important [...] text for those seeking to adopt network science tools for cultural data" that makes "a real contribution to the study of networks." The Network Turn was the subject of two special journal issues and is held by nearly 400 academic libraries.

Awards and honors
In 2011, the international 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 their 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.