Wilfrid Cariou holds a master's degree in History and teaches digital humanities at the University of Nantes, notably using data from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Emory University, usa). His centers of interests are manipulation, visualization (maps, graphs, networks) and interactive publication of data from historical research. His teaching is mainly based on the R language specialized in data processing and the Qgis geographic information system . He is currently involved in the European Slafnet project (data on slave trade in the Indian Ocean).
