Topic modeling

What will you need?

1. Mallet Gui (it has been downloaded and installed on classroom computers) http://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/

2. Texts:
a) State of the Union Addresses: 2005-2012
Download a zip file from here.
b) Random selection of 22 Eighteenth-Century texts
Download a second zip file from here.

Sample results

Example of results from a topic modeling approach to State of Union Addresses: 2005-2012. Topics and their contributions. The full spreadsheet is here

Slides

here
or, for DH201here Network Diagram of topics in Bush vs. Obama.