It has been quite some time since my last post here (and even that was quite far away from the previous one). As for everyone, the last few months have been quite challenging, but most importantly, I had been quite busy finalizing my Masters’ dissertation, which evolved towards an unexpected direction and required more work …
Continue reading A function to help the selection of structural topic models
I gave up a long time ago any serious attempt to do historical research or any wish to be a serious professional historian. Nevertheless, by reasons of personal interests and education, I obviously keep being interested in history and historiography. One of the topics I was and still am interested in is the role of …
Continue reading Huế 1968: A turning point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
This is the sixth (and I think will be for a while the last) entry of a series of posts where I explore the application of the structural topic model and its R implementation. The other posts are here; while this is the github repository with the jupyter notebooks where the contents of the posts are better integrated with code …
Continue reading Messing around with STM, part IVb – Analysis of metadata: spatial dummy variable
This is the fifth entry of a series where I explore the application of the structural topic model and its R implementation. The other posts are here; while this is the github repository with the jupyter notebooks where the contents of the posts are better integrated with code snippets and visualizations. Introduction In this and the next post, …
Continue reading Messing around with STM, part IV – Analysis of metadata
This is the fourth of a series of posts where I explore the application of structural topic models and its R implementation. The other posts are here, here and here; while this is the github repository with the jupyter notebooks where the contents of the posts are better integrated with code snippets and visualizations. The …
Continue reading Messing around with STM, part IIIb: model analysis
Seeking the link 