LDA
Has been a long time I’ve written something, that’s not code. While I write this out, a white noise playlist from some random YouTube channel plays and I also have been discovering a lot of new music lately, thanks to Spotify. Its 2 nd of June 2024, a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my cubicle on the first floor of Faculty building at IIM Nagpur, and the heat outside is enough to toast bread. It’s been half a month since I came here and the people are absolutely amazing, too sweet and helpful, my professor is even more amazing, and I absolutely love working here. Realizing a lot of things, about my work, about myself, about a lot of things. So now the song has changed to Glided Lily. Just fifteen days and I’ve learnt more than I could ever possibly in that time frame. Came across something amazing called as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is a method of topic modelling. Let me give you a guided tour of what LDA is – Let's say you have a collectio...