Visualizing Topic Networks in Personal Correspondence: The Richards/Turner Letters

My story describes using a network visualization of an LDA topic model of correspondence (letters) between two early-20th-century female psychiatrists to discover and show how key concerns about work and home life are connected to other topics in the letters…..

Author

Nathaniel D. Porter is the Social Science Data Consultant and Data Education Coordinator in the University Libraries and Affiliated Research Faculty in Sociology at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on best practices for teaching with data and transparent/reproducible analysis of online, network and qualitative data.