Comments on: Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part 1) http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/ thoughts on scholarship and history in a digital age Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:02:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cameron Blevins http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-647 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:56:46 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-647 Thanks Rob! Good to hear from you again. I’ll definitely be keeping you posted.

-Cameron

]]> By: McCausland http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-645 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:46:11 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-645 You boys have taken on one h— of a job
and I for one would consider it a personal favor if
you would alert me when you have this project well under way.
I’m the guy (with Cyn) that transcribed the 9,999 words that Martha wrote.
Robert McCausland

]]> By: Kelly in Kansas http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-424 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:26:03 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-424 Thanks for letting us follow your interesting journey virtually. We will all learn from your experience.

]]> By: Ben Brumfield http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-423 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:59:17 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-423 That’s a bit comforting. I’d love to chat with you about this, but suggest that we wait until you’ve posted your observations. I’m very interested to see what sort of data you think is extractable.

]]> By: Cameron Blevins http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-422 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:28:22 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-422 Ben,
Thanks for the comment – I think it’s pretty normal for methodological approaches to get shaded by the text, which I admit can be both a good and bad thing. From what I understand you have a far more sophisticated grasp of programming than I do, so I welcome any and all advice from your own experience.
-Cameron

]]> By: Ben Brumfield http://historying.org/2009/08/31/text-analysis-of-martha-ballards-diary-part-1/#comment-416 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:48:51 +0000 http://historying.org/?p=815#comment-416 I’m looking forward to see what you come up with. I’ve made a couple of stabs at mining diary data in a naive way on my own project, but suspect that my approach is too strongly influenced by the text I’m working with.

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