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Extend section on topic modelling

Open stefan-mueller opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

One of the most frequently asked questions is how to use a dfm for topic models. We cover topic models in one section, but I think we should also show how to convert the dfm object to a stm topic model and how to run a basic operation.

We might also add links to tutorials on topic models, such as:

What's your view, @koheiw?

stefan-mueller avatar Nov 05 '18 19:11 stefan-mueller

I am a topic model skeptic, who do not believe that we can conduct solid social science research using (unsupervised) topic models, so not willing to extend the topic model page much. I usually cover those special topics in slides like https://cdn.rawgit.com/koheiw/workshop-PolText2018/master/slides.html

koheiw avatar Nov 05 '18 20:11 koheiw

I could extend the topic models page, since I also get tons of questions on this, and was planning to integrate STM better soon anyway. (including a PR to the stm package).

kbenoit avatar Nov 06 '18 21:11 kbenoit