David Mimno

Bio: David Mimno is an associate professor in the department of Information Science at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from UMass Amherst and was previously the head programmer at the Perseus Project at Tufts and a researcher at Princeton University. His work is supported by the Sloan foundation and the NSF.

I supervise PhD students in Information Science and Computer Science.

Teaching:

INFO 2950: Introduction to Data Science [Spring 2020]

INFO 3350/6350: Text mining for History and Literature. [Fall 2019]

INFO 6150/CS 6788: Advanced Topic Modeling [Fall 2018]

I supervise the MALLET Machine Learning toolkit.

Here are some resources and tools that might be useful:

An implementation of LDA in Javascript + D3.
Slides (and video!) from a presentation at the MITH Digital Humanities topic modeling workshop.
Java implementations of topic model algorithms.
An extensive bibliography on topic modeling.
Example R scripts from Princeton course on probabilistic modeling (COS513)
A model of topic change over five years of ICML.
A topic model of Wikipedia aligned across 40 languages.
A map of the NIH (I provided topic- and word-based distance measurements), profiled in Nature Methods.
Time-series plots of 1000 topics extracted from 20 years of the New York Times.
Classics-related topics in 12 languages from Wikipedia, with a visualization of the relative proportion of each wiki on each topic.