A function to help the selection of structural topic models

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 …

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Messing around with STM, part IVb – Analysis of metadata: spatial dummy variable

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 …

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Messing around with STM, part IV – Analysis of metadata

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, …

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Messing around with STM, part IIIb: model analysis

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 …

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Messing around with STM, part IIIa: model selection

This is the third of a series of posts where I explore the application of structural topic models and its R implementation. The other posts are here and here; while here is the github repository with the jupyter notebooks where the contents of the posts are better integrated with code snippets and visualizations. The notebook with the …

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