Just because you can topic model something doesn’t mean it actually tells us anything (and please don’t ever describe computational text analysis as “objective”).
- topic modeling
- computational methods
- computational text analysis
- text analysis
- digital methods
- objectivity
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One of those afternoons where I’m auditing someone’s analysis code, but it’s an analysis of 4M rows of data, so I’m also doing spurts of grading while I wait for code to execute.
35 GB of data is a lot to begin with, but when it’s 35 GB of CSVs? That’s when it starts to really register.
I got a reminder today that I do the kind of research where something as hilariously unintuitive as telling a program to treat long numbers as “words made up of 0-9” is actually a critical step to making sure you get the right results.
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