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Topic Modeling in the Humanities

The cat is out of the bag: The Journal of Digital Humanities (2:1), special issue on topic modeling, has been released. It’s a fairly apt phrase, because the process of editing the issue felt a bit like stuffing a cat in a bag. When Elijah Meeks approached the JDH editors about he and I guest editing […]

Topic nets

I’m sorry. I love you (you know who you are, all of you). I really do. I love your work, I think it’s groundbreaking and transformative, but the network scientist / statistician in me twitches uncontrollably whenever he sees someone creating a network out of a topic model by picking the top-n topics associated with each […]

Topic Modeling for Humanists: A Guided Tour

It’s that time again! Somebody else posted a really clear and enlightening description of topic modeling on the internet. This time it was Allen Riddell, and it’s so good that it inspired me to write this post about topic modeling that includes no actual new information, but combines a lot of old information in a […]

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Topic Modeling in the Humanities

Topic nets

Topic Modeling for Humanists: A Guided Tour