“Nice Weather We’re Having”: Trends in Pearson’s Writing and Analysis

A brief analysis of Pearson's record of the weather using computational text analysis, connecting it to the theme of "Identity and Power at Union College" and placing it into the larger trend of recording information in a historical diary; complemented by a human text analysis document of a similar sort titled "What Makes a Diary?: Pearson’s Diary and the Conventions of Diary-Writing ".