As discussed I joined the newspaper table which contains city/state columns onto our cleaned runaway table to show a map of approximate runaway locations. The below map shows our entire dataset spanning ~150 years. As you can see our sample is highly centered in North Carolina with only one city each in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Louisiana and several important states having no data points at all. I think this demonstrates our need to continue getting more ads to help make the total dataset more useful.
On that topic I have resumed work on ad extraction from the books and I’m putting together an MTurk batch to speed up the French ad translation.
Eric Anderson, CFA
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