Martha Ballard’s Diary
Since the spring of 2009 I have been working sporadically on text mining the diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife from Maine who kept a daily record of her life between 1785 and 1812. Below are posts that describe some of my project’s progress:
Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part One)
Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part Two)
[...] by 18th century midwife, Martha Ballared. You can read about his experiments with different tools here. If you want to play with a very simple free application, try out Wordle as a starting point. It is [...]
Digital History » Text Mining
June 1, 2010 at 9:24 am
[...] when Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published her book A Midwife’s Tale. When Shawn assigned us the reading on Blevins’ work on the diary, I was really excited to see the differences in approaches [...]
Martha Ballard’s Diary Close Reading versus Distant Reading | #HIST5702x
March 12, 2012 at 3:53 pm