The categories I have selected for my Omeka website pages are as follows: Before the War: Early Life: This section will include census records regarding his early childhood and what small info I have about his birth place/date etc. As a Young Adult: Census records that show him working as a servant […]
Archive for April, 2014
Ngram and Text Mining
I have had entirely too much fun playing with Google’s Ngram tool over the last few days. I’ve played with everything from the trending history of my children’s names to the popularity of mythical creatures. What a fun little tool it is. However, it also has interesting applications for historical thought. In the case of […]
Daytum
Completed my weekend of Daytum recording. I’m not sure I learned very much. I don’t really drink anything but water, so that graph is amusingly simple. I added in .5 blue icee because I sipped some of my husband’s drink at the movies and decided it made the graph more interesting than just a big […]
Mapping Marvin
This week we played with mapping through Google Maps. I was able to place Marvin’s birthplace, childhood home, and the farm he owned after the war. They are all within a dozen miles of each other. So the war was clearly his only significant venture outside of his immediate world. I think this, in […]