Voices of History: 40 Famous Speeches

Voices of History: 40 Famous Speeches

von Alix Paulino -
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Re: Voices of History: 40 Famous Speeches

von Alix Paulino -
I decided to complete the task using Python instead of R because I encountered several issues while trying to work with R. Python provided a more seamless experience for data preprocessing, topic modeling with LDA, and visualization of the results. Here is a detailed explanation of the steps I followed to achieve the analysis:

Choosing the Corpus:
I used the dataset "50 Famous Speeches.csv" for the topic modeling analysis.

Cleaning the Texts:
I cleaned the texts by removing formatting and any HTML tags to retain only the raw text.

Loading the Texts into a CSV File:
The speeches were already in a CSV file, where the first column is the document ID and the second column contains the speech content.

Text Preprocessing:
I used Python's NLTK library for text preprocessing. This involved removing stop words, performing lemmatization, and tokenizing the text. I also handled special characters to ensure the texts were properly cleaned.

Model Calculation:
I used the scikit-learn library to vectorize the texts and build the LDA model. I chose appropriate parameters for the model to identify key topics in the speeches.

Visualization of Results:
I used Matplotlib and WordCloud libraries to visualize the results. This included generating word clouds for each topic and creating a distribution of topics across the speeches using subplots to organize the charts better.

Best regards,
Alix Paulino