Topic Modeling Reflection
Volumes 1 and 2 from the American State Papers were the primary source documets I used to run our topic modeling experiment. There were 4 different types of Topic Models I compared; 15, 20, 50, and 100 topics. For at least a few of the lines in each document I was able to make effective topics but as the topic model sizes got smaller, I found myself better identifying topics. The most popular topics came from the 15 topic model and the labels were Land Grants, Procedures, Community, Political Landscape, and the exchanging/passing down of land. It makes sense we are seeing these types of topics come up for our research in the American State Papers, but for the majority of bigger topic models I was not getting good enough…