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My name is Samantha Greulach. I am currently a second -year graduate student in Ball State University's Master of Arts in History program. This is my second digital project and second website. This project is a Creative Project that was directed under the guidance of Dr. Douglas Seefeldt in May 2017. I am working towards study of women in early modern England.
The digital tools used determined the methods of this project. Voyant is a textual analysis tool that allowed me to input all the ballads in together as a corpus or in their own separate categories. When using Voyant's word cloud tool this showed the most frequently used words for the corpus. The more often a word is used, the larger the word appears in the word cloud. Visualization allows the viewer to, at glance identify the words that the broadside authors found to be most important, and to often show themes throughout ballads. This also allowed me to be able to pin point what words were used the most and examine in context. Voyant's key words in context function allows one to choose a key word and look at the few words before and after that term.
I would like to thank several people who helped to make this project possible. I first would like to thank my advisors, Assistant Professor at Ball State University, Dr. Tara Wood, who has helped with through countless revisions of analysis for this project. I would also like to thank Assistant Professor at Ball State University, Dr. Douglas Seefeldt who spent hours helping to make sure the website runs smoothly. I would not have been able to do this project without their help. I would also like to thank the University of California-Santa Barbra for their creation of the English Broadside Ballad Archives. If not for this digital archive, I would not have been able to do this project.