Comments on: Martha Ballard’s Diary

By: The MALLET behind the Madness: Topic Modeling World War II Letters, Part I « Elena M. Friot

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:03:43 +0000

[…] discussing MALLET in class, and perusing Nelson’s project and Cameron Blevin’s text mining of Martha Ballard’s Diary, I followed the tutorial at The Programming Historian and installed MALLET. When I first used it, […]

By: Disrespect des Fonds: Rethinking Arrangement and Description in Born-Digital Archives - Archive Journal Issue 3

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:21:10 +0000

[…] Bailey Online and Cameron Blevins’s work text mining and topic modeling Martha Ballard’s diary.43 The Old Bailey Proceedings provides access to nearly 200,000 digitized trial records from […]

By: Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction | clio 3 blog

Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction | clio 3 blog — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:47:23 +0000

[...] Blevins has a series of posts on his work text mining and topic modeling the diary of Martha Ballard. He has compared his results [...]

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Caterer san francisco — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:46:25 +0000

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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Sep plan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:18:01 +0000

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.

By: Martha Ballard’s Diary Close Reading versus Distant Reading | #HIST5702x

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:53:56 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Digital History » Text Mining

Digital History » Text Mining — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:24:32 +0000

[...] 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 [...]