Behind the speeches: A topic modeling analysis of colombian presidential candidates (2026)

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Apply topic modeling to analyze political speeches and uncover hidden themes, without taking a biased stance

intermediate Published 10 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Collect a dataset of speeches from Colombian presidential candidates
  2. Preprocess the text data by tokenizing and removing stop words
  3. Apply topic modeling techniques, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to identify hidden themes
  4. Visualize the results using dimensionality reduction techniques, such as t-SNE or PCA
  5. Compare the topic models to identify similarities and differences between the candidates' speeches
Who Needs to Know This

Data scientists and machine learning engineers can benefit from this approach to analyze large datasets of text, such as political speeches, to identify patterns and themes. This can be useful for researchers, policymakers, and journalists to gain insights into the topics and ideas discussed by politicians.

Key Insight

💡 Topic modeling can be used to analyze large datasets of text and identify patterns and themes, without requiring manual labeling or annotation

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