Text-mining tools can be valuable, specially if you’re trying to find the most used words in a text, or you want to be able to see just the text of a said website, or article, instead of having to deal with all the different images and pictures that website might have on their page.

I, myself, found that text-mining was not very helpful to me, and that is because most of the sources that i will be using include pictures that i very much would like to see and use. Also, since my sources are primary sources from say the library of congress and the national archives, most of the time the sources are a digitized copy that i can’t insert in a text-mining tool.

On another note though, the past week have been miserable to me! I lost a dear friend in a car accident, and that just put me in shock, i haven’t been going to school for the past week, and i don’t think i will be going to school next week either. It feels like i was caught off guard, and blows just keep coming this semester.