Text Mining the Diary of Martha Ballard
Computationally analyzing the diary of an 18th-century midwife
From 2009 to 2011 I worked 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 my work:
Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part One)
Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part Two)