Support code for Chapter 4: Topic Modeling
Word cloud creation requires that pytagcloud be installed (in turn, this
requires pygame). Since this is not an essential part of the chapter, the
code will work even if you have not installed it (naturally, the cloud image
will not be generated and a warning will be printed).
You will need a lot of disk space. The download of the Wikipedia text is 11GB and preprocessing it takes another 24GB to save it in the intermediate format that gensim uses for a total of 34GB!
Run the following two commands inside the data/ directory:
./download_wp.sh ./preprocess-wikidata.sh
As the filenames indicate, the first step will download the data and the second
one will preprocess it. Preprocessing can take several hours, but it is
feasible to run it on a modern laptop. Once the second step is finished, you
may remove the input file if you want to save disk space
(data/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2).
To generate the model, you can run the wikitopics_create.py script, while
the wikitopics_plot.py script will plot the most heavily discussed topic as
well as the least heavily discussed one. The code is split into steps as the
first one can take a very long time. Then it saves the results so that you can
later explore them at leisure.
You should not expect that your results will exactly match the results in the book, for two reasons:
- The LDA algorithm is a probabilistic algorithm and can give different results every time it is run.
- Wikipedia keeps changing. Thus, even your input data will be different.
- blei_lda.py
- Computes LDA using the AP Corpus.