This project uses as its evidence nearly the full run of the Richmond Daily Dispatch from the eve of Lincoln's election in November 1860 to the evacuation of the city in April 1865.
c) State of Union Addresses (1790-2012) (zip file)
Sample results
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.
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