R Workshop: Text Analysis II – Topic Modeling

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Thu, December 4, 2025
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Townshend Hall, room 038, 1885 Neil Ave Mall and Zoom

The second of our text analysis sessions will offer a brief overview of some methods used in this area, along with a deeper dive into topic modeling. This particular approach aims to find (latent) groups of words belonging to a larger body of text or collection of documents (similar to a latent class analysis).

At the end of the session participants will leave with code to undertake basic topic modeling.

Optional Reading on topic modeling (13 pages): 

Sirkka, O., Walo, S., Purhonen, S., Verboord, M., Janssen, S., & Bonnet, P. (2024). Understandings of Culture: A European Bottom-up Study Using Structural Topic ModelingSocius10

Click to attend via Zoom. 

Fall 2025 R Workshop Schedule