Using Goldstone’s Topic Modeling R package with JSTOR’s Data for Research
Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood have an article on ‘the quiet transformation of literary studies’ (preprint), where they topic model a literary history journal and discuss the implications of that...
View ArticlePatterns in Roman Inscriptions
Update August 22 I’ve now analyzed all 1385 inscriptions. I’ve put an interactive browser of the visualized topic model at http://graeworks.net/roman-occupations/. See how nicely the Latin clusters?...
View ArticleTopic Modeling an archaeological database: today’s adventures
If you follow me on twitter, and saw a number of bizarre/cryptic tweets today, I was live tweeting my work stream. This is what I did today – think of this as stream of consciousness over the last five...
View ArticleTopic Modeling an Archaeological Database 2
Some things I have learned in recent days: data must be cleaned. Really. It’s probably still too noisy, even when you think it isn’t. Eliminate frequently occuring meta-notes (as it were). All...
View ArticleTopic Modeling the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The Frome Hoard of Roman Coins I got my hands on the latest build of the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. I want to topic model the items in this database, to look for patterns in the small...
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