» The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors Matthew L. JockersPosted by Matthew Jockers in Text-Mining ≈ Comments Off on The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors For my forthcoming book, which includes a chapter on the uses of topic modeling in literary studies, I wrote the following vignette. It is my imperfect attempt at making the mathematical magic of LDA palatable to the average humanist. Imperfect, but hopefully mo
