tl_topic_model

This code accompanies an article in Theological Librarianship called Topic Modeling: An Introduction and Narrative. It is written for pedagogical purposes, not to be as efficient as possible. Not included here is the script which scraped the website of Theological Librarianship; the result of that scraping was a list of Python dictionaries. Each dictionary represented an article and was structured like this: {'authors': 'Sandra Oslund', 'id': '4331518', 'issue': 'Vol 9 No 2 (2016)', 'text': '9PROFILES: Quiet Person, Powerfully Loud In˜uence: Norris Magnuson (1932-2006)by Sandra OslundNorris Alden Magnuson was born to George and Esther (Eliason) Magnuson on \n...' 'title': 'Quiet Person, Powerfully Loud Influence: Norris Magnuson ' '(1932-2006)'}