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)
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Reading a Midwife’s tale would be really interesting and getting daily account of her struggles and innovative ways to combat with them would be worth the painstaking efforts.
I think reading diaries of a person can be really useful when it comes to finding out what the life was like in their times and what all challenges they faced.
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