Beyond the word cloud

2016-11-14

I gave a talk at Plotcon called “Beyond the word cloud”. It’s about two things:

• word clouds are bad
• topic models and language embeddings are better

Here are the slides and my notes.

It was a very high-level talk. If you’d like to go into more detail on how topic models and language embeddings work, please see the resources I linked to for my talk on text summarization. In particular, you may enjoy my talk at PyGotham.