Theological topics through time: An application of Gibbs-sampled LDA and post-hoc metrics to compare religious venues

Whitepaper on LDA Topic Models to compute topic entropy by year. Base corpus: LDS General Conference articles spanning decades.

Dependencies

• docker
• docker-compose

Build Instructions

docker-compose run proposal
docker-compose run final

The first time you run the command it will need to build the latex base image which can take a long time.

To Do

• Use a common base image to accelerate first-time PDF generation