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 …
Continue reading Messing around with STM, part IIIa: model selection
This is the second of a series of posts where I explore the application of structural topic models and its R implementation. The first post is here; while here is the github repository with the jupyter notebook containing basically the contents of the posts and the code chunks, and some of the functions I used. …
Continue reading Messing around with STM – Part II – Data cleaning
Introduction As the second semester of my Master’s degree is finally wrapping up (two more to go), I suddenly found myself with some spare time, which I decided to employ to mess around a bit with Structural Topic Model (STM) and its R implementation, aptly named stm. As I mentioned in my previous post, it …
Continue reading Messing around with STM – Part I, Web Scraping
As I had the chance to mention in a previous post, I am currently enrolled in the MSc program in Information Science and Data Analytics at Northumbria University. One day I will probably write a post about the experience, for now let’s say that I am doing quite all right juggling between work and study …
Continue reading Some considerations on a research question I will not be able to answer to
He’s just taken two wounded and one dead. All he has to report is one confirmed, one probable [enemy fatalities]. This won’t look good. Bad ratio. He knows all sorts of bullets were flying all over the place. It was a point-to-point contact, so no ambush, so the stinkin’ thinin’ goes round and round, so …
Seeking the link 