1. Mallet Gui (it has been downloaded and installed on classroom computers)
http://code.google.com/p/topic-modeling-tool/
2. Texts
a) First-Person Narratives from Doc South project (Digital Library Interface)
A collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners 1860-1920.
b) Back-up zip file (Bush - Obama State of Union Addresses)
c) State of Union Addresses (1790-2012) (zip file)
Interpreting results from topic modeling takes practice. It's also helpful to produce graphs that may help visualize the results. Here's an example of some visualization of results from a topic modeling approach to State of Union Addresses: 2005-2012. Topics and their contributions. The full spreadsheet is here.
The network graph shows which topics are shared, and which are unique.
Another visualization of the same data:
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