Probabilistic Topic Models and Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Part 3
From Data Cleaning to Data Formatting: Finding a statue within a block of marble.
Data Science Altitude for This Article: Camp Two. Previously, we removed a bunch of metadata from The Federalist Papers that was introduced from its being hosted by the team at The Gutenberg Project. After that, we took out much of the intra-document metadata that was explanatory in nature to each of the 85 essays.
Now, our goal is to polish off the metadata removal and transition the original unstructured data into object types that are more conducive to numerical analysis.